Title

CAD P&R Implementation Engineer Intern

Job Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming
extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring
passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could
accomplish. Dynamic, amazing people and inspiring, innovative technologies are
the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with
all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our
products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the
world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking
Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet?
As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the extraordinary and
rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire
millions of Apple’s customers every single day.
In this role, you will be enabling a design effort primarily collaborating with the
implementation team, with a critical impact on getting functional products to
millions of customers quickly.
Key Qualifications
• Exposure to CAD or design place and route (PNR) flows
• Experience scripting in Tcl or Perl. Experience with Python, Makefile, C++ is
a plus.
• Have strong CE/EE fundamentals
• Experience with Physical Design closure - timing, noise, physical verification,
EM/IR/IVD is a plus.
• Experience using or supporting sign-off tools for design closure, or
experience with methodology development for low power design and/or high
performance designs is a plus.
Description
You will utilize your hand-on skills enhancing and supporting the implementation
flow from RTL through GDS sign-off. Responsibilities can include:
• Developing and integrating new features in the PD flow.
• Resolving project specific issues within the build and sign-off flows.
• Exploring and supporting methodology improvements to improve power,
performance and area
• Interfacing with other tools like PDV, IR, extraction and timing.
• Releasing flow updates to projects.
 • Working with other CAD engineers to coordinate development and support
efforts.
Education
Currently pursuing a PhD, MS or BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering and Electrical Engineering
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