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Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer - Design/DV Interface
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Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? 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!
DescriptionThe Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer plays a key role in promoting and driving robust, scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams within Apple's HWTech organization. This role leverages advanced automations and GenAI-driven capabilities to enhance engineering productivity, improve methodology quality, and enable intelligent workflow optimization across static verification, formal verification, simulation and emulation domains.
This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural vision, and technical leadership to identify high-impact opportunities, design and architect innovative solutions, including GenAI-enabled tooling, and drive adoption across a large globally distributed engineering organization. You will work closely with the different design organizations and CAD teams to translate complex engineering challenges into scalable, reusable, and forward-looking methodology solutions that accelerate silicon development and verification while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency. In short, this position focuses in fostering our North Star and making sure that our vision statement extends across the different design groups:
To create, monitor, and maintain high quality flows that enable Apple Silicon to produce chips that enable Apple's best products.
You will be working with an energized and highly motivated CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple's chip design efforts.
Preferred QualificationsExperience debugging vendor tool problemsExperience with Cadence or Synopsys' static/formal/dynamic verification toolsExperience with Python, TCL or PerlExperience with JSON or YAMLKnowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDLDemonstrated experience driving large-scale software system development from specification to deploymentExperience in implementing new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methodsGreat teammate with strong written and verbal interpersonal skills, and a service and support mentalityGood communications skills are required and prior customer support experience
DescriptionThe Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer plays a key role in promoting and driving robust, scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams within Apple's HWTech organization. This role leverages advanced automations and GenAI-driven capabilities to enhance engineering productivity, improve methodology quality, and enable intelligent workflow optimization across static verification, formal verification, simulation and emulation domains.
This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural vision, and technical leadership to identify high-impact opportunities, design and architect innovative solutions, including GenAI-enabled tooling, and drive adoption across a large globally distributed engineering organization. You will work closely with the different design organizations and CAD teams to translate complex engineering challenges into scalable, reusable, and forward-looking methodology solutions that accelerate silicon development and verification while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency. In short, this position focuses in fostering our North Star and making sure that our vision statement extends across the different design groups:
To create, monitor, and maintain high quality flows that enable Apple Silicon to produce chips that enable Apple's best products.
You will be working with an energized and highly motivated CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple's chip design efforts.
Preferred QualificationsExperience debugging vendor tool problemsExperience with Cadence or Synopsys' static/formal/dynamic verification toolsExperience with Python, TCL or PerlExperience with JSON or YAMLKnowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDLDemonstrated experience driving large-scale software system development from specification to deploymentExperience in implementing new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methodsGreat teammate with strong written and verbal interpersonal skills, and a service and support mentalityGood communications skills are required and prior customer support experience