Apple

FE RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • BS degree with 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Proficient in Python or Perl programming
  • Familiarity with Verilog and SystemVerilog
  • Experience with Front-End EDA tools (e.g., Clock Domain Crossing)
  • Strong understanding of RTL Build and Construction flows
  • Excellent communication and debugging skills
  • Customer-oriented mindset with support experience

Responsibilities

  • Develop and support the RTL gatekeeping infrastructure
  • Maintain a centralized configuration management system
  • Contribute to the development and release of soft IP
  • Administer Perforce for version control integrity
  • Drive innovation by building generative AI solutions
  • Coordinate and update internal training materials
  • Support vendor training for Design and DV engineers

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with a motivated CAD team
  • Opportunity to innovate within apple’s R&D
  • Access to ongoing training and professional development
  • Participation in cutting-edge technology development
  • Contribution to Apple’s product design and engineering productivity
Full Job Description
As a Front-End (FE) RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer, you will play a major role in developing and supporting a reliable infrastructure and work environments that design and verification teams use for modifying, analyzing, and verifying RTL. In this role, you will support RTL gatekeeping infrastructure of design and verification collateral as well as soft IP development and release methodologies. Additionally, you will contribute to Perforce administration, ensuring the integrity and performance of our version control ecosystem. You will have the opportunity to maintaining a centralized configuration management system that enables different design views to be loaded into any Front-End flow. An important key aspect of this position is driving innovation through building generative AI solutions across all of these systems and identifying opportunities where AI can accelerate engineering productivity and improve infrastructure reliability. You role will also involve managing internal training materials, keeping them up to date and coordinating vendor trainings so that our Designer/DV engineers are well equipped to do their best job at Apple. The FE RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer plays a key role in promoting and driving robust, scalable infrastructure solutions across RTL Design and DV teams within Apple's HWTech organization. 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 infrastructure and 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. Minimum of BS degree + 10 years of relevant experience Expertise in programming in Python or Perl Knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog Experience with Front-End EDA tools such as Clock Domain Crossing, Reset Domain Crossing or Lint Understanding of Front-End RTL Build or Construction flows Excellent communication, debug and root causing skills Customer-oriented mindset and support experience Experience in leading large-scale software system development from specification to deployment MSEE/CE/CS preferred

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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Learn more about Apple
Size
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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