Job Details

CAD Engineer - RTL Construction

Cupertino, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: May 20, 2025

Role Number: 200605731

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 +3 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

• 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

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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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