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.

In this highly visible role, you will:

– Drive 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

– Drive 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 requirement of BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experiencePython programming language experienceExperience with Unix / Linux OS, utilities, and scriptingExperience with defining software architectureExperience in/with software engineering practices (code review, automated builds, regressions testing, and version control systems).Experience with Perl scriptingKnowledge of custom IC design flow