CAD Engineer - PDV

CAD Engineer•

PDV Beaverton, Oregon, United States Hardware Summary Posted:

Apr 16, 2026

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200658352-0505 Do you love building 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. As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design verification (PDV) flows. The role requires you to work on flow and runset development for various technology nodes and tool sets. Working alongside the CAD team, you will be collaborating with the custom digital/analog/mixed-signal design, physical design (PD) and chip integration teams. With good understanding of design rule checks (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) runsets, you will develop rule decks from scratch and/or modify existing ones. You will also have opportunities to develop ML/LLM based automations and solutions. Description

• Develop, improve and maintain various aspects of physical verification flow and methodology
• Coordinate the effort of validating flows, improving for custom checks and data generation
• Work with the design and PD teams to facilitate the chip design process
• Code custom PDV rule decks such as Electrical rule checks (ERC) and Programmable ERCs
• Collaborate with tool vendors and foundries for PDK performance enhancements Minimum Qualifications Minimum requirement of BS + 3 years of relevant industry experience Preferred Qualifications Knowledge in Calibre/ICV/Pegasus runset coding Knowledge of ML/LLM is a plus Knowledge of parasitic extraction, SKILL coding, and PnR tools is a plus Previous industry experience in Silicon chip design flows IP/SOC level PDV debug experience in various technology nodes Scripting skills in programming languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl, Shell, Makefile or C Experience with flow automation and development Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.

We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You'll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong. Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.