Job Details

ASIC Design Engineer

Cupertino, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 05, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200606694

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Develop and support component libraries for Apple technologies, including configuring and testing hard IPs. Write scripts using Perl, TCL, Python, and etc. to enhance, debug, or extend the QA flow. Support, use, and maintain CAD/EDA tools including Innovus, HSPICE, Virtuoso, Verilog simulation software, etc. Develop infrastructure to support design work in new process technologies. Write QA checks specific to process technology and monitor the flow status for end users. Set up Quality Assurance Tests against the views generated by the EDA tools. Utilize data collection, analysis, and reporting tools to provide methodology insights. Write scripts in python/perl/shell to make the QA flow more robust. Use industry-leading tools to visualize the flow to end-users in the form of dashboards and interactive reports. Protect IP-related data through building software programs that flag violations. Maintain good relationship with end-users, constantly answering questions with regards to issues they encountered when using in-house and vendor tools. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 - $214,500/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

• Experience and/or education must include:

• Utilizing Python, Perl, and Make to maintain a large multi-language codebase.

• Analyzing customer feedback and understanding existing codebase to resolve any issues.

• Monitoring and maintaining the correctness of customer data sets in SQL databases and serialization formats like JSON or YAML

• Architecting user-friendly APIs to access data in SQL and NoSQL databases, JSON, and other data files.

• Understanding 3rd party EDA tools, creating CAD scripts and configuration in domain-specific languages like TCL

• Identifying and addressing problems in domain-specific formats like Verilog, Liberty, DEF, LEF, and GDS.

• Using best software development practices, and utilizing Python to develop a modern, maintainable, modular framework.

• Driving code reviews, sprinting planning and execution

• Writing unit tests using PyTest to achieve production-grade code coverage.

• Utilizing static site generators, and writing user-facing and developer-facing documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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