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SoC Physical Design Engineer, PnR

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-28

Core

Physical implementation of design partitions from netlist to tapeout for highly complex System on Chip (SoC) utilizing innovative process technology.

Role type

Senior IC SoC Physical Design Engineer (PnR)

Builds

SoC chips for Apple hardware products

Domain

Semiconductor / SoC Physical Design

Required skills

partition-level P&R implementation, floorplanning, clock and power distribution, timing closure, physical and electrical verification, physical design flow methodology, industry standard EDA tools

Preferred skills

large SoC design experience (>20M gates), high-frequency design (>1GHz), sub-10nm technology node experience

Responsibilities

Collaborate with logic design teams on partition architecture and early physical aspects, complete netlist to GDS2 implementation meeting schedule and design goals, perform timing/physical/electrical verification and drive signoff closure, resolve and improve physical design and flow issues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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