As a Power Flow Methodology Engineer at Apple, you'll be part of the Low Power group within Silicon Technologies. Your role involves developing and enhancing low-power flows for cutting-edge chip design, working on highly visible products used by millions. You'll deliver new automated solutions and capabilities for the Silicon Engineering Power team to build more power-efficient chips.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architecting, implementing, and verifying new low-power design and verification flows
- Crafting low-power methodologies across various future technologies
- Creating flows and tools for power analysis, optimization, and verification
- Communicating with the design team to answer questions and resolve issues
You'll work on:
- RTL construction/verification
- Synthesis
- Place and Route (P&R)
This role offers the opportunity to create solutions for complex challenges and contribute to Apple's next-generation chips. You'll be at the forefront of developing new capabilities in power domains unseen in previous chips.
Requirements:
- BS degree and minimum 3 years of relevant industry experience
- Good understanding of VLSI designs and SOC design flows
- Strong passion for scripting and applying low-power domain-specific knowledge
- Solid background in flow development and/or object-oriented language algorithm design (Python, C++, Java)
- Experience with modern software testing and development practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Additional skills that are beneficial:
- Knowledge of Tcl/Perl
- Experience with EDA tools
- GUI development experience
- Understanding of low-power concepts such as UPF and low-power design
Join Apple's Hardware team and be part of creating the technology that powers millions of devices worldwide!