CAD Flow Automation Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States
Hardware

Summary

Posted:
Role Number:200571627
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance of every detail? 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, we will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices! In this exciting and highly visible role, you will support and enhance a complex system that can be used to run various analysis, QA, and release processes for a large set of IPs. The role will require cross-collaboration with CAD and design team colleagues.

Description

- Create automation solutions that greatly reduce design workload. - Support and enhance an in-house UI that simplifies visualizing and monitoring extremely large workloads. - Develop utilities to extract, track, and lead metrics data from analysis flows. - Work with the dashboard team to develop rich dashboards that the design teams can use to get detailed information for each IP. - Develop and support utilities to run Pre-QA and Post-QA steps for internal flows. - Interface and collaborate with multiple CAD/design teams, integrate their flows into our framework, and come up with robust QA flows to check the resulting data.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Knowledge of VLSI design fundamentals and design flows for custom and ASIC designs
  • Programming language experience in Perl or Python
  • Knowledge of basic ML algorithms and LLM fundamentals
  • Minimum requirement of BS degree and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with architecting and supporting complex flows.
  • Proficient with programming languages like Python, Perl, C++, etc.
  • Strong programming, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Experience with frameworks like React and tools like Splunk, MySQL, Perforce, and Git is a plus.
  • Demonstrate innovative and creative thinking capabilities.
  • Ability to perform well on schedules and coordinate with cross-functional team members.

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

  • 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.