CAD Engineer – Design Verification Methodology

Apple•Waltham, TX

About The Position

As a member of our CAD team, you will develop, maintain, and enhance existing sophisticated software systems for regression-testing Apple’s silicon designs in software simulation, to find and report defects in our chip designs, and thus ensure that Apple tapes-out world-class silicon. Your experience and innovative ideas will inform the design of the next generation of these regression systems. Your experience and insight, your skill at diagnosing the root cause of complex problems, and your ability to guide engineers who come to you with problems will be important contributions to an extended CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple’s DV and chip design engineering efforts. You will work closely with EDA vendors to incorporate new capabilities of their commercial tools, and to resolve problems.

Requirements

Minimum of BS degree + 10 years of relevant experience
Experience developing, maintaining, and enhancing an existing system for regressing RTL
Experience debugging vendor tool problems
Python programming background is required

Nice To Haves

Experience with TCL or Perl is a plus
Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning
Experience with interacting with DV team(s) to help solve their problems.
Experience in implementing new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methods.
MSEE/CE/CS preferred.
Knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDL a plus.
Experience with Synopsys VCS, XCelium, or Modelsim.
Good communications skills are required and prior customer support experience is a plus.
Experience writing or maintaining a script or Makefile that builds a simulation model from RTL is a plus.
Familiarity with Verdi and/or Indago is considered a plus.
Knowledge of C and C++ is a plus.