Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer – Design/DV Interface

The Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer plays a key role in promoting and driving robust, scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams within Apple’s HWTech organization. This role leverages advanced automations and GenAI-driven capabilities to enhance engineering productivity, improve methodology quality, and enable intelligent workflow optimization across static verification, formal verification, simulation and emulation domains.

This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural vision, and technical leadership to identify high-impact opportunities, design and architect innovative solutions, including GenAI-enabled tooling, and drive adoption across a large globally distributed engineering organization. You will work closely with the different design organizations and CAD teams to translate complex engineering challenges into scalable, reusable, and forward-looking methodology solutions that accelerate silicon development and verification while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

In short, this position focuses in fostering our North Star and making sure that our vision statement extends across the different design groups:
To create, monitor, and maintain high quality flows that enable Apple Silicon to produce chips that enable Apple's best products.

You will be working with an energized and highly motivated CAD team that comprehensively supports Apple’s chip design efforts.

Minimum of BS degree and 15+ years of relevant experience
Experience with Front-End ASIC workflows
Experience working directly with design and verification engineers to define requirements and implement solutions
Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning

Experience debugging vendor tool problems
Experience with Cadence or Synopsys’ static/formal/dynamic verification tools
Experience with Python, TCL or Perl
Experience with JSON or YAML
Knowledge in Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDL
Demonstrated experience driving large-scale software system development from specification to deployment
Experience in implementing new functionality to solve emerging problems or to optimize already existing methods
Great teammate with strong written and verbal interpersonal skills, and a service and support mentality
Good communications skills are required and prior customer support experience
MSEE/CE/CS preferred

Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? 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!

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 $212,000 and $386,300, 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

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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

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