CAD Engineer - RTL Construction

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CAD Engineer - RTL Construction
Austin, Texas, United States
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Summary
Posted: Jul 01, 2025
Role Number: 200611391
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Apple Silicon group, you’ll help to ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions.
In this hands-on role, you will utilize your experience in CAD to support Design and DFT teams. You will write and support software to create and compile new RTL and integrate it into Apple’s designs. This RTL can be related to memory bist, scan codec, power, or other functionalities and disciplines. The software used to analyze the RTL and edit it are some of the leading methods in the industry. You will be working with a team of colleagues that have decades of experience in this area. Your team has a tight-knit relationship with its customers. The customer’s needs are yours to imagine and automate into reality and production.
Description
The position plays a key role in focusing on and fostering our North Star and making sure that our vision statement extends to all pre and post silicon teams: To create, monitor, and maintain high quality flows that enable Apple Silicon to produce chips that enable Apple's best products. The role also includes:
Developing and supporting checkers to analyze our designs for specific topologies or structures and flag those for review by our customers.
Developing and supporting new methods of editing or manipulating RTL and validating that these edits are correct by construction.
Evangelizing and promoting these systems across all Apple Silicon design teams.
Creating documentation and providing training to our internal customers. -Contributing in development within the Front-End Infrastructure space -Continued engagement with our internal customers as they use our automation and make sure they are successful.
Continued engagement with our internal customers so that we strive to improve the workflows and systems that suits their needs.
You will be working with an energized and highly motivated CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple’s chip design efforts.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum requirement of Bachelors Degree +10 years of relevant industry experience
Experience in programming languages such as Perl or Python
Experience in Verilog/System Verilog
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated experience driving large-scale software system development from specification to deployment
Demonstrated ability to take a spec, create software to meet it, develop the tests to validate the software, document the software, and support it with your customers
Experience in RTL (Verilog, SystemVerilog, and possibly VHDL)
Experience in memory bist or scan DFT
Excellent communication skills (both oral and written)
Good social skills and previous customer support
Experience with JSON or YAML is a plus
Experience in CI/CD automation is a plus
TCL experience is a plus
Experience in automated code testing infrastructure is a plus
Advanced usage of different source control tools like Perforce or Git is a plus
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .
Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.
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Location:
Austin, TX, United States
Category:
Architecture And Engineering Occupations

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