Virtuoso Custom CAD Engineer ICT 4/5

Apple Inc

Austin, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apple, CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), Cadence, Communication Skills, Customer Support/Service, Data Management, Integrated Circuits (ICs), Linux Operating System, Mixed Signal IC Design, P-Cells, Perl Programming Language, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Development, Productivity Management, Programming Languages, Python Programming/Scripting Language, RCS (Revision Control System), Schematics, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Tcl-Tk, Team Player, Test Automation, Test Plan/Schedule, Unix Operating Systems, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Austin, TX
POSTED
3 days ago

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 documentationMinimum requirement of BS + 10 years of relevant industry experience. Experience in Python programming/scriptingExperience in analog and digital new product development IC CAD support using EDA tools

Expert in Cadence Composer Virtuoso, Layout tools, VXL, PCELLs, and CDFs

Experience supporting data management tools

Deep knowledge of programming languages such as Python, DFII, SKILL, Perl, Tcl

Proficient with Unix / Linux OS, utilities, and scripting

Strong communication skills both oral and written

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