Custom IC CAD Engineer

Summary

Posted: Nov 13, 2024

Role Number:200578854

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient display and image sensors. 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. As a CAD Engineer of Custom Infrastructure Support, you will provide support for digital, analog and mixed-signal designs using Cadence. Responsibilities include general user support for both layout and schematic designers, tool customizations, Unix/Linux support and development testing of new tools and flows.

Description

In this highly visible role, you will: - Provide full support for Cadence custom flows, tool development, installation and maintenance - Work with the design team to develop utilities and scripts. - Support Virtuoso layout and schematic software and release flows based on revision control system - Enable design methodology to increase productivity - Work with CAD team to provide general CAD services support, utilities, scripts while also working closely with the Design and Layout teams - Support tool configuration and application - Involvement in test development, automation and regression flow support - Create and maintain relevant documentation

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in Python programming
• Experience with custom IC design
• Minimum requirement of BS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Unix / Linux OS, utilities, and scripting
• Experience in programming languages such as Perl, Tcl
• Proficient in Python programming
• Experience supporting EDA tools for custom IC design
• Understanding of software engineering practices (code review, automated builds, regressions testing, version control systems).
• Strong communication skills both oral and written

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