CAD Engineer - RTL Construction

CAD Engineer - RTL Construction

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Hardware

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Apple Silicon group, you'll help to ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. In this hands-on role, you will utilize your experience in CAD to support Design and DFT teams. You will write and support software to create and compile new RTL and integrate it into Apple's designs. This RTL can be related to memory bist, scan codec, power, or other functionalities and disciplines. The software used to analyze the RTL and edit it are some of the leading methods in the industry. You will be working with a team of colleagues that have decades of experience in this area. Your team has a tight-knit relationship with its customers. The customer's needs are yours to imagine and automate into reality and production.

Role Description

The position plays a key role in focusing on and fostering our North Star and making sure that our vision statement extends to all pre and post silicon teams : To create, monitor, and maintain high quality flows that enable Apple Silicon to produce chips that enable Apple's best products. The role also includes :

• Developing and supporting checkers to analyze our designs for specific topologies or structures and flag those for review by our customers.
• Developing and supporting new methods of editing or manipulating RTL and validating that these edits are correct by construction.
• Evangelizing and promoting these systems across all Apple Silicon design teams.
• Creating documentation and providing training to our internal customers.
• Contributing in development within the Front-End Infrastructure space.
• Continued engagement with our internal customers as they use our automation and make sure they are successful.
• Continued engagement with our internal customers so that we strive to improve the workflows and systems that suits their needs.

You will be working with an energized and highly motivated CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple's chip design efforts.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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.