Circuit Design Automation Engineer

Apple Inc

Austin, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), Analysis Skills, Automation Engineering, CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), Circuit Design, Circuit Simulation, Communication Skills, Compiler Technology, Computer Programming, Customer Experience, Debugging Skills, Debugging Tools, Design Flows, Graphic Design, Hardware Development, IP (Internet Protocol), Industry Standards, Machine Learning, Memory Hardware, Noise Analysis, Perl Programming Language, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Assurance, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Tcl-Tk, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design, Transistor-Level Circuit Design, Unix Shell Programming
LOCATION
Austin, TX
POSTED
30+ days ago

Do you want to utilize your engineering background to make big things happen? Can you influence, connect, get results and communicate effectively? Can you deliver on a predictable and dynamic schedule? Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions? As part of our Digital Design Engineering group, you'll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality. You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing visionary ideas to the real world. Your efforts will be groundbreaking, often literally. Join us, and you'll help design the tools that allow us to bring customers experiences they've never before imagined. You will be part of an exciting silicon design group that is responsible for designing state-of-the-art ASICs. We have an extraordinary opportunity for Custom Design Automation Engineers.

This is a highly visible role at the heart of a processor design effort, making a critical impact delivering products to market quickly.

Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort. Where you will collaborate with all disciplines, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new ideas, as well as work with a team of talented engineers. As a Custom Design Automation engineer for digital design team, you will perform the following:

  • Responsible for working on initiatives to automate custom analysis flows for fixing the design margins
  • Build and maintain memory compiler technologies to facilitate in creating memory arrays in large SoC designs
  • Debug and provide quick solutions for digital IP designers and/or users.
  • Define and develop QA checks to verify EDA views of SRAM and register files.
  • Collaborate with design and CAD team to optimize design flows and timing / power methodologies for SRAM designs
  • Apply machine learning to optimize flows and QA checksBS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.- We are looking for applicants with fundamentals in custom transistor level circuits and SRAM designs
  • Efficient programming skills in languages like: SKILL, Perl, Python, TCL, Shell.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with the circuit team to define and maintain design flows and tools.
  • Solid understanding of industry standard circuit simulator and debug tools, and STA tools.
  • Knowledge of timing, power, noise and EMIR analysis
  • Ability to provide automations for rapid and dynamic design needs.

About the Company

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Apple Inc

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs