Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer

Do you love creating 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.

• Participating and engaging with cross-functional teams to tackle key physical design challenges
• Developing innovative solutions in physical design and optimization space
• Developing and supporting implementation flows for multiple projects and design teams
• Developing and maintaining custom CAD tools for implementation and signoff
• Creating flows to enable successful deployment of new technology nodes
• Developing tools and methodologies for best-in-class PPA and productivity including ML-based solutions
• Collaborating with other teams such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA)
• Working directly with EDA tool vendors to resolve tool issues and identify areas for tool improvements

• Experience in CAD Tool, CAD flow or PD methodology
• Knowledge of Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages
• Minimum requirement of BS+ 3 years of relevant industry experience

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

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.