CAD Engineer – Design Verification Flows and Methodology Job at Apple
Summary
Posted: Jan 23, 2023
Role Number:
200458867
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions! Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices! In the CAD organization, you will get to create new software and technologies that will enable other Apple engineers to create products for millions of customers across the world.
Key Qualifications
- Familiarity with Verilog and SystemVerilog is a plus.
- Familiarity with Xcelium or Modelsim or Synopsys VCS is required.
- Good communications skills are required and prior customer support experience is a plus.
- Experience writing or maintaining the script or Makefile that builds the simulation program from RTL is a plus.
- Familiarity with Verdi, Indago and/or SimView is a plus.
- Scripting/coding abilities in Python/Perl is required.
- Good communications skills are required.
- Knowledge of C/C++ or any other OOP programming language is a plus.
- Proven track record dealing with customers internal or external would be a plus.
Description
As a member of our CAD team, you will develop, maintain, and enhance existing sophisticated software systems for regression-testing Apple’s silicon designs in software simulation, to find and report defects in our chip designs, and thus ensure that Apple tapes-out world-class silicon. Your experience and innovative ideas will inform the design of the next generation of these regression systems. Your experience and insight, your skill at diagnosing the root cause of complex problems, and your ability to guide engineers who come to you with problems will be important contributions to an extended CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple’s DV and chip design engineering efforts. You will work closely with EDA vendors to incorporate new capabilities of their commercial tools, and to resolve problems. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: - Develop, maintain, and enhance an existing system for regressing RTL - Interact with DV team to help understand their problems and propose solutions to solve them. - Ability to offer unique solutions that are scalable for user problems. - Propose new methodology changes to aid smart verification for next generation system on chip design. - Implement new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methods. - Ability to handle complex development tasks, testing the solution and deployment to engineering teams - Mentor and provide guidance to others if needed - Leverage existing solutions, custom and industry-standard, and applying to solving problem at hand. - Role involves debugging vendor tool problems and driving methodology changes with them to aid next generation verification. - Drive smart verification methodology with customers and vendors.
Education & Experience
Minimum requirement of BS + 10 years of relevant industry experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $144,500 and $250,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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