FE RTL Infrastructure - CAD Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

6h

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
• 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 design and verification teams.
• 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.
• Managing internal training materials and coordinating vendor trainings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior