Custom CAD Engineer

Apple

Posted 5 days ago

Full Time

San Diego, California

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

You will provide comprehensive support for Cadence custom flows, including tool development, installation, and maintenance. Additionally, you will collaborate with design and layout teams to develop utilities, scripts, and drive design methodology to improve productivity.

Qualifications

You have a BS degree in a relevant technical discipline and 0-2+ years of experience in IC CAD support using EDA tools. You possess strong communication skills, both oral and written, and are comfortable supporting Cadence custom flows and design teams.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Cadence

EDA tools

Virtuoso Layout

PCELLs

CDF

Skill

Perl

Tcl

Unix

Linux

scripting

Job Description

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.

Description


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

Apple

We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. And the same innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. This is where your work can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Visit apple.com/careers to learn more.
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