Apple

Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer - Design/DV Interface

Apple$130K — $180K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; MSEE/CE/CS preferred
  • 15+ years of relevant experience in Front-End ASIC workflows
  • Proficient in tools from Cadence or Synopsys for static, formal, and dynamic verification
  • Skilled in Python, TCL, or Perl; familiar with JSON or YAML
  • Strong knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDL
  • Proven track record in driving software development from specification to deployment
  • Ability to define requirements and implement solutions in collaboration with design and verification engineers

Responsibilities

  • Promote and drive robust, scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams
  • Leverage GenAI-driven capabilities to enhance engineering productivity and improve methodology quality
  • Identify high-impact opportunities and design innovative solutions to optimize workflows
  • Collaborate with design organizations and CAD teams to address complex engineering challenges
  • Create, monitor, and maintain high-quality flows for Apple Silicon development
  • Enable intelligent workflow optimization across static verification, formal verification, simulation, and emulation domains
  • Support and mentor team members within the CAD group

Benefits

  • Collaborative and energized team environment
  • Opportunity to work on next-generation technology
  • Focus on enhancing engineering productivity and innovation
  • Engagement with cutting-edge GenAI capabilities
  • Impactful role that contributes to high-quality Apple products
Full Job Description
Description

The Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer plays a key role in promoting and driving robust, scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams within Apple's HWTech organization. This role leverages advanced automations and GenAI-driven capabilities to enhance engineering productivity, improve methodology quality, and enable intelligent workflow optimization across static verification, formal verification, simulation and emulation domains.

This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural vision, and technical leadership to identify high-impact opportunities, design and architect innovative solutions, including GenAI-enabled tooling, and drive adoption across a large globally distributed engineering organization. You will work closely with the different design organizations and CAD teams to translate complex engineering challenges into scalable, reusable, and forward-looking methodology solutions that accelerate silicon development and verification while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

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 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 Qualifications

Minimum of BS degree and 15+ years of relevant experience

Experience with Front-End ASIC workflows

Experience working directly with design and verification engineers to define requirements and implement solutions

Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

Experience debugging vendor tool problems

Experience with Cadence or Synopsys' static/formal/dynamic verification tools

Experience with Python, TCL or Perl

Experience with JSON or YAML

Knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDL

Demonstrated experience driving large-scale software system development from specification to deployment

Experience in implementing new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methods

Great teammate with strong written and verbal interpersonal skills, and a service and support mentality

Good communications skills are required and prior customer support experience

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.

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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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