FE RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

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. Your 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Developing and supporting a reliable infrastructure and work environments for RTL modification, analysis, and verification.
Supporting RTL gatekeeping infrastructure of design and verification collateral.
Supporting soft IP development and release methodologies.
Contributing to Perforce administration.
Maintaining a centralized configuration management system.
Driving innovation through building generative AI solutions.
Identifying opportunities where AI can accelerate engineering productivity and improve infrastructure reliability.
Managing internal training materials and keeping them up to date.
Coordinating vendor trainings.
Promoting and driving robust, scalable infrastructure solutions across RTL Design and DV teams.
Creating, monitoring, and maintaining high quality infrastructure and flows.