Apple
SoC Physical Design Engineer, Top Level
$150K–$278K
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Feb 5, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Implements complete chip designs from netlist to tapeout and leads top-level physical design planning, execution, and issue resolution.
What you'll do
- Coordinate with front-end and physical design teams to plan physical design early and establish methodologies, guidelines, and checklists.
- Lead place-and-route work by setting goals and milestones, planning work, and coordinating dependencies across design domains.
- Resolve physical design and flow issues by identifying solutions and driving their execution.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science degree.
- Experience integrating IP from internal and external vendors and specifying and driving physical-domain IP requirements.
- Experience with floorplanning tools, place-and-route flows, global timing verification, and physical design verification flows.
- Detailed understanding of database management issues.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ASIC integration, SoC design issues, hierarchical design, and timing and physical convergence.
- Experience with large SoCs (>20M gates) above 1 GHz using sub-45 nm technologies, and familiarity with Design for Yield and Manufacturability, multi-Vt strategies, and thermal management.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
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