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CAD Engineer – Design Verification Methodology

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin Metro Area, Texas)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role within Apple's Silicon Technologies group developing, maintaining, and enhancing regression-testing software systems for verifying RTL silicon designs in software simulation, collaborating with EDA vendors, and supporting DV and chip design efforts to ensure successful tape-out of Apple’s silicon.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and enhance existing systems for regression-testing Apple’s silicon designs in software simulation
  • Diagnose root causes of complex problems and guide engineers with solutions
  • Work closely with EDA vendors to incorporate new capabilities of their commercial tools and resolve problems
  • Support Apple’s DV and chip design engineering efforts through extended CAD team involvement
  • Possibly implement new functionality to solve emerging problems or optimize existing methods

Qualifications

  • Minimum of BS degree + 3 years of relevant experience
  • Python programming background
  • Experience debugging vendor tool problems
  • Experience with Verilog and SystemVerilog; familiarity with VHDL a plus
  • Experience with Synopsys VCS, XCelium, or Modelsim
  • Experience writing or maintaining a script or Makefile that builds a simulation model from RTL is a plus
  • MSEE/CE/CS preferred
  • Knowledge of C and C++ is a plus
  • Experience with TCL or Perl is a plus
  • Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Experience interacting with DV teams to solve problems
  • Good communications skills; prior customer support experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with Verdi and/or Indago is considered a plus

Skills

Required:PythonVerilogSystemVerilogRegression testing / DV toolingDebugging vendor toolsCommunication
Nice to have:VHDLC / C++TCL / PerlAI/ML

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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