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Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer – Design/DV Interface

Apple· Hardware
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San Francisco Bay Area$216.2k - $394kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Front-End CAD Methodology Engineer role within Apple’s Silicon Technologies group, focusing on promoting scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams. Leverages automations and GenAI capabilities to improve productivity, quality, and workflow across static/formal/dynamic verification, simulation, and emulation to accelerate silicon development and verification while maintaining high quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Promote and drive robust, scalable methodology solutions across RTL Design and DV teams within Apple’s HWTech organization.
  • Leverage 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.
  • Identify high-impact opportunities, design and architect innovative solutions (including GenAI-enabled tooling), and drive adoption across a large globally distributed engineering organization.
  • Translate complex engineering challenges into scalable, reusable, and forward-looking methodology solutions that accelerate silicon development and verification.
  • Foster the North Star vision: high quality flows enabling Apple Silicon to produce chips powering Apple products.

Qualifications

  • 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 and prior customer support experience
  • MSEE/CE/CS preferred

Skills

Required:Front-End ASIC workflowsCollaboration with design and verification engineersArtificial intelligence and machine learningVerification toolsProgramming languagesData interchange formatsHDL knowledgeSoftware system developmentProblem solving and innovationCommunication and teamwork
Nice to have:Vendor tool debugging

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation assistance (potential)
  • employee stock programs including RSU and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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