CAD Validation DevOps Engineer

Summary

Posted: May 8, 2024

Role Number:200550603

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our HW Technology org, you'll help design 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

Validation CAD engineering plays a major role in creating, maintaining, and promoting a robust system of advanced verification/validation workflows our project teams heavily rely on to accomplish critically important verification tasks for our chips. In this highly impactful role, you will be responsible for tooling and workflows used by GPU teams (to start with) involved in all stages of the GPU development lifecycle, from early feature specification through silicon bring-up and beyond. You will work with other teams from engineering sites around the globe towards the shared goal of ensuring that Apple GPUs meet the highest quality and efficiency standards. This job involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and mission-critical tooling and workflows for GPU verification and other teams, such as Platform Engineering, Silicon Validation, Performance and Software teams.

• Strong software development background
• Expertise in Python, Perl, Kotlin and/or TCL is required
• Experience in Cloud Computing, DevOps and Infrastructure
• Experience in version control software (ie. Git, Perforce)
• Experience in continuous integration/continuous delivery solutions (ie. GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins, etc) is a plus
• Emulation experience on any available platforms, Palladium, Veloce or Zebu is a plus
• Machine Learning experience is a plus
• Strong communication skills are a pre-requisite, as you will collaborate with multi-functional groups, previous customer support is a plus
• Experience in graphics device driver capture is a plus
• Ability to come up with initiatives and drive them from concept to production
• Must have worked on significant project(s) that brought high ROI to the team/company
• Must be comfortable with co-developing an existing system

• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.