Validation CAD Engineer

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a Formal Verification CAD engineer within the Silicon Technologies group to design and maintain verification flows for next-generation SoCs.

You will collaborate with the CAD team to build scalable tools, improve regression coverage, and help ensure high reliability across Apple’s power-efficient processors. The role emphasizes scripting (Python, Perl, Kotlin, TCL), Verilog/SystemVerilog, and testing-minded software development, with opportunities to optimize

Qualifications

• Experience scripting in Python, Perl, Kotlin or TCL.
• Software development experience with test in mind.
• Knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog.
• BS degree and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance a system executing a formal verification tool.
• Support Jasper reset analysis, SEC and formal proofing flows.
• Debug vendor tool problems and collaborate with designers/formal verification teams.

Skills

Python

Perl

Kotlin

TCL

Software Development with Test mindset

Verilog

SystemVerilog

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Jasper

VC Formal

Job description

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? 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! In the CAD organization, you will get to create new software and technologies that will enable other Apple engineers create products for millions of customers across the world.

Description

Formal Verification CAD engineering plays a major role in promoting a reliable work environment for Formal Verification teams. There are many applications within the formal verification arena that need support and development, such as formal property checking, low power, connectivity checks, sequential equivalence checking (SEC), and coverage. As member of our CAD team, you will develop, maintain, and enhance the flows that our internal teams use to create the next generation of Apple products. In addition to maintaining and enhancing our Formal Verification flow, the position offers a large variety of opportunities ranging from detailed application profiling and tuning to development of Continuous Integration/Deployment pipelines to large scale compute cluster management. You will have the opportunity to integrate your ideas and add new features to the system as well as collaborate with other CAD teams in various functional front-end areas.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing an existing system of executing a formal verification tool
• You will help out with supporting our existing Jasper reset analysis, SEC and formal proofing flows
• You will utilize your debugging experience to debug vendor tool problems and interact with designers/formal verification team to help solve their problems

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience scripting in Python, Perl, Kotlin or TCL
• Experience in Software Development with Test in-mind
• Knowledge in Verilog and System Verilog
• Minimum requirement of BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Jasper or VC Formal products is highly desirable
• Experience in formal verification is a plus
• Prior customer support experience is a plus
• Experience with DevOps flows is a plus
• Comfortable with co-developing an existing system

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