Apple

Circuit Design Automation Engineer

Apple$120K — $150K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering or related field with a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience
  • Fundamental knowledge of custom transistor level circuits and SRAM designs
  • Proficient programming skills in SKILL, Perl, Python, TCL, and Shell
  • Collaborative team player with experience in defining and maintaining design flows and tools
  • Strong understanding of circuit simulators, debug tools, and STA tools
  • Familiar with timing, power, noise, and EMIR analysis
  • Skilled in developing automation solutions for dynamic design needs.

Responsibilities

  • Automate custom analysis flows to improve design margins
  • Build and maintain memory compiler technologies for large SoC designs
  • Debug and provide rapid solutions for digital IP designers
  • Define QA checks for verifying EDA views of SRAM and register files
  • Collaborate with design and CAD teams to enhance design flows and methodologies for SRAM
  • Optimize flows and QA checks through the application of machine learning.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with state-of-the-art ASIC designs
  • Engaged, collaborative work environment with talented engineers
  • Strategic role influencing product delivery to millions of customers
  • Chance to generate and implement innovative ideas
  • Visibility in processor design efforts, enhancing career growth opportunities.
Full Job Description
You will be part of an exciting silicon design group that is responsible for designing state-of-the-art ASICs. We have an extraordinary opportunity for Custom Design Automation Engineers. \nThis is a highly visible role at the heart of a processor design effort, making a critical impact delivering products to market quickly.

Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort. Where you will collaborate with all disciplines, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new ideas, as well as work with a team of talented engineers. As a Custom Design Automation engineer for digital design team, you will perform the following: - Responsible for working on initiatives to automate custom analysis flows for fixing the design margins - Build and maintain memory compiler technologies to facilitate in creating memory arrays in large SoC designs - Debug and provide quick solutions for digital IP designers and/or users. - Define and develop QA checks to verify EDA views of SRAM and register files. - Collaborate with design and CAD team to optimize design flows and timing / power methodologies for SRAM designs - Apply machine learning to optimize flows and QA checks

BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.

- We are looking for applicants with fundamentals in custom transistor level circuits and SRAM designs - Efficient programming skills in languages like: SKILL, Perl, Python, TCL, Shell. - Ability to work collaboratively with the circuit team to define and maintain design flows and tools. - Solid understanding of industry standard circuit simulator and debug tools, and STA tools. - Knowledge of timing, power, noise and EMIR analysis - Ability to provide automations for rapid and dynamic design needs.

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.

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