Apple

AI Methodology Design/CAD Engineer

Apple • $120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree in a relevant field with 3+ years of industry experience
  • Proficient in using AI tools for engineering tasks
  • Background in VLSI design and CAD tools or flows
  • Strong Python programming skills
  • Familiarity with chip design flow from specification to tapeout

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with design teams to identify AI applications in complex design challenges
  • Analyze evaluation data and quality metrics to assess AI model performance
  • Tune AI agents, including prompts and model selection
  • Develop CAD tools and workflows for AI integration with design data
  • Evaluate AI tools from EDA vendors and compare with in-house solutions
  • Facilitate the adoption of AI capabilities to enhance chip delivery efficiency

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI applications in chip design
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Exposure to a variety of complex design challenges
  • Potential for professional growth in a rapidly evolving field
  • Access to industry-standard EDA tools and methodologies
Full Job Description
As part of the Hardware Technology CAD team, you'll help bring AI methodology to chip design. You will work end to end with design teams and CAD flow owners on complex design and CAD challenges, in areas such as custom and analog design, RTL and front end, design verification, physical design, timing, extraction and signoff. You will build and evaluate AI solutions for these challenges, with a focus on the quality of their results. We are looking for a VLSI design or CAD engineer who is passionate about applying AI to chip design.

Description

In this highly visible role, your primary responsibilities will include:

Partnering with design teams and CAD flow owners across multiple projects to understand complex design challenges and where AI can help

Contributing to evaluation data and quality metrics, and running evaluations across models to find where an agent fails

Tuning AI agents, including their prompts, tools, agent skills and choice of model

Developing CAD tools and flows that let AI agents work with design data and EDA tools

Evaluating AI tools from EDA vendors alongside in-house solutions

Enabling the organization to leverage AI capabilities and drive efficiency in chip delivery

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum requirement of BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

Experience using AI tools, such as AI coding assistants, in engineering work

Experience in VLSI design, CAD tools or CAD flows

Experience in Python programming

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building LLM applications or tool-using AI agents, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers

Experience evaluating or tuning AI systems, such as agent performance or output quality

Experience applying machine learning to design data, such as predicting timing or power

Understanding of the chip design flow, from spec to tapeout

Hands-on knowledge of industry-standard EDA tools for simulation, synthesis, place and route, extraction, timing or physical verification

Experience developing CAD tools, CAD flows or design methodology

Experience writing testbenches, regression tests or signoff checks

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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