AI Methodology DesignCAD Engineer

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 youll help design and manufacture our next-generation high-performance power-efficient processor system-on-chip (SoC). Youll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means youll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apples devices. Together you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their part of the Hardware Technology CAD team youll help bring AI methodology to chip design. You will work end to end with design teams and CAD flow owners on complex design and CAD challenges in areas such as custom and analog design RTL and front end design verification physical design timing extraction and signoff. You will build and evaluate AI solutions for these challenges with a focus on the quality of their results. We are looking for a VLSI design or CAD engineer who is passionate about applying AI to chip design.

In this highly visible role your primary responsibilities will include:nPartnering with design teams and CAD flow owners across multiple projects to understand complex design challenges and where AI can helpnContributing to evaluation data and quality metrics and running evaluations across models to find where an agent failsnTuning AI agents including their prompts tools agent skills and choice of modelnDeveloping CAD tools and flows that let AI agents work with design data and EDA toolsnEvaluating AI tools from EDA vendors alongside in-house solutionsnEnabling the organization to leverage AI capabilities and drive efficiency in chip delivery

Minimum requirement of BS and 10 years of relevant industry experiencenExperience using AI tools such as AI coding assistants in engineering worknExperience in VLSI design CAD tools or CAD flowsnExperience in Python programming

Experience building LLM applications or tool-using AI agents including Model Context Protocol (MCP) serversnExperience evaluating or tuning AI systems such as agent performance or output qualitynExperience applying machine learning to design data such as predicting timing or powernUnderstanding of the chip design flow from spec to tapeoutnHands-on knowledge of industry-standard EDA tools for simulation synthesis place and route extraction timing or physical verificationnExperience developing CAD tools CAD flows or design methodologynExperience writing testbenches regression tests or signoff checks