About this role
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our HW Technology org, youʼll help design our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). Youʼll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions! Joining this group means youʼll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Appleʼs devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!
As a CAD Engineer of Custom Infrastructure Support, you will provide support for digital, analog and mixed-signal designs using Cadence. Responsibilities include general user support for both layout and schematic designers, tool customizations, Unix/Linux support and development testing of new tools and flows.
In this highly visible role, you will:
- Provide full support for Cadence custom flows, tool development, installation and maintenance
- Work with the design team to develop utilities and scripts.
- Support Virtuoso Layout and schematic software and release flows based on revision control system
- Drive design methodology to increase productivity
- Work with CAD team to provide general CAD services support, utilities, scripts while also working closely with the Design and Layout teams
- Support tool configuration and application
- Involvement in test development, automation and regression flow support
- Create and maintain relevant documentation
Minimum Qualifications
BS degree in relevant technical discipline
0-2+years of experience in analog and digital new product development IC CAD support using EDA tools
Strong communication skills both oral and written.
Preferred Qualifications
Some experience supporting Cadence Composer Virtuoso, Layout tools, VXL, PCELLs, and CDFs
Experience in programming languages such as DFII, Skill, Perl, Tcl
Proficient with Unix / Linux OS, utilities, and scripting