GPU Physical Design Clocking Engineer

Apple Inc

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TL;DR · GPU Physical Design Clocking Engineer

As a GPU Physical Design Clocking Engineer within the Silicon Technologies group, you will implement complete chip designs from netlist to tapeout while focusing on high-performance, power-efficient system-on-chip architecture. You will collaborate with front-end teams to drive clocking construction for optimal performance, power, and area. Your daily responsibilities include developing clocking methodologies, establishing guidelines, and supervising progress across multi-functional teams. The role requires expertise in ASIC integration, including floorplanning, clock and power distribution, global signal planning, and I/O planning. You will utilize floorplanning tools, P&R flows, and global timing verification flows to manage high-speed clock distribution networks from root to leaf. Key technical domains include managing multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD solutions, mixed-signal block integration, and addressing design for yield, manufacturability, multi-Vt strategies, and thermal management for large subsystem designs exceeding 20M gates.

What you'll do

  • Implement complete chip design from netlist to tapeout for high-performance GPUs and SoCs.
  • Design and implement high-speed clock distribution networks from the root to the leaf.
  • Optimize clocking construction to improve performance, power, and area (PPA) metrics.
  • Develop and enforce clocking methodologies, guidelines, and checklists to streamline physical design workflows.
  • Resolve complex cross-hierarchy clocking issues involving latency, skew, and variation.
  • Integrate internal and external IP while specifying requirements in the physical domain.
  • Design and craft test structures to evaluate clocking functionality and performance post-silicon.
  • Manage multi-voltage and multi-clock domain integration including ESD solutions and mixed-signal blocks.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor of Science degree and 10 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience with ASIC integration including floorplanning, clock and power distribution, global signal planning, and I/O planning.
  • Experience with floorplanning tools, P&R flows, and global timing verification flows.
  • Experience with hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing, and physical convergence (preferred).
  • Experience planning, implementing, and analyzing high-speed clock distribution networks from root to leaf (preferred).
  • Exposure to various clock distribution strategies including balanced trees, mesh, and forwarded clocks (preferred).
  • Ability to use critical clock metrics like latency, skew, and variation to solve cross-hierarchy issues (preferred).
  • Experience with large subsystem designs (>20M gates) at frequencies over 1GHz using new technologies (preferred).

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