CAD Engineer – PDV

Summary

Posted: Oct 3, 2024

Role Number:200571397

Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in 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, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design verification (PDV) flows. The role requires you to work on flow and runset development for various technology nodes and tool sets. Working alongside the CAD team, you will be collaborating with the custom digital/analog/mixed-signal design, physical design (PD) and chip integration teams. With good understanding of design rule checks (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) runsets, you will develop rule decks from scratch and/or modify existing ones.

Description

– Develop, improve and maintain various aspects of physical verification flow and methodology – Coordinate the effort of validating flows, improving for custom checks and data generation – Work with the design and PD teams to facilitate the chip design process – Code custom PDV rule decks such as Electrical rule checks (ERC) and Programmable ERCs – Collaborate with tool vendors and foundries for PDK performance enhancements

Minimum Qualifications

• Previous industry experience in Silicon chip design flows
• Tapeout support and IP/SOC level PDV debug experience in various technology nodes
• Scripting skills in programming languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl, Shell, Makefile or C
• Experience with flow automation and development in advanced nodes
• Minimum requirement of BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in Calibre/ICV runset coding for DRC/LVS/ERC/MFILL
• Rule coding in PERC is a plus
• Knowledge of parasitic extraction, SKILL coding, and PnR tools is a plus

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 $175,800 and $312,200, 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.