FE RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Front-End RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer to help design and support RTL design environments, ensuring scalable toolchains and reliable infrastructure for design and verification teams.

You will drive Perforce administration, configuration management, and AI-enabled improvements across RTL flows, collaborating with designer and DV groups to implement robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• BS degree plus 3 years of relevant experience.
• Expertise in Python or Perl programming.
• Knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support infrastructure used by RTL design and DV teams.
• Manage RTL gatekeeping infrastructure and soft IP release methods.
• Contribute to Perforce administration and configuration management.
• Promote AI-driven improvements to engineering productivity and infrastructure reliability.
• Create and maintain training materials and coordinate vendor trainings.

Skills

Python

Perl

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Education

BS degree

MSEE/CE/CS preferred

Tools

Perforce

Job description

Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!

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 Qualifications

• Minimum of BS degree + 3 years of relevant experience
• Expertise in programming in Python or Perl
• Knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 contributing to large-scale software system development from specification to deployment
• MSEE/CE/CS preferred

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