CAD Extraction Engineer

Summary

Posted: Mar 4, 2025

Role Number:200593556

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, you and your team will enable our customers to do everything they love with their devices! In the CAD organization, you will create new software and technologies enabling other Apple engineers to develop products for millions of customers worldwide!

Description

As a member of our CAD team, you will: • Develop, maintain, and enhance existing parasitics extraction flow for Apple’s successful silicon designs • Use the most efficient RC analysis skills on various designs to diagnose and debug parasitic effects and guide and design improvement for balanced and minimized parasitic impact • Ensure parasitic RLC accuracy and circuit performance in post-layout simulations using EDA extraction tools and methodologies • Deeply understand parasitic modeling in advanced process technologies and use the knowledge to explain circuit behavior and performance • Work closely with EDA vendors to incorporate new capabilities to solve technical problems • Develop an RC-aware or RC-driven methodology for design optimization

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with post-layout custom design flow, including LVS, Extraction, and Simulations
• Experience as a power user or developer with extraction tools like StarRC and Quantus
• Deep understanding of cellular/wireless design RC accuracy investigation, reduction methods, and simulation impact
• Skills in sophisticated script development using Shell, Perl, Python, and TCL
• Understand foundry PDK collaterals and usage in individual flows
• Bring a general problem-solving and positive teamwork attitude
• Experience in general big data analysis is a plus