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Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? 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!

Description

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.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience debugging vendor tool problems

Experience developing, maintaining, and enhancing an existing system for regressing RTL

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

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum of BS degree + 3 years of relevant experience

Python programming background

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 and $277,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

About Apple

Working at Apple means doing more than you ever thought possible and having more impact than you ever imagined.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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