CAD Engineer – Design Verification Tools and Infrastructure

Summary

Posted: Sep 23, 2024

Role Number:200569230

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 create products for millions of customers across the world.

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. - Interacting with DV team to help solve their problems. Understand their problems and propose solutions to solve them. - Implement new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methods. - Handle high complexity development tasks, testing the solution and deployment to engineering teams - Leverage existing solutions, custom and industry-standard, and applying to solving problem at hand - Use ML based techniques to optimize compute usage - Role involves debugging vendor tool problems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience scripting/coding in Python
• Experience in CAD tools and flows
• Knowledge of OOP programming languages
• Minimum requirement of BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Good analytical skills
• Computer architecture and queuing system knowledge
• Familiarity with Verilog and SystemVerilog
• Familiarity with Xcelium or Modelsim or Synopsys VCS
• Good communications skills are required and prior customer support experience
• Experience writing or maintaining the script or Makefile that builds the simulation program from RTL
• Familiarity with Verdi, Indago and/or SimView
• Machine Learning experience

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