CAD Extraction Engineer
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Job overview
As a member of Apple’s CAD team, the CAD Extraction Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances parasitics extraction flows for silicon designs. The role uses RC analysis and EDA tools to diagnose parasitic effects, improve designs, and ensure parasitic RLC accuracy and circuit performance in post-layout simulations. It also develops RC-aware or RC-driven optimization methodologies, including solutions using EDA vendors, scripts, complex software, and AI technology.
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Full job description
Role Number: 200692223-0157
Summary
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance of every detail? As part of our Silicon Engineering group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). 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 everything they love with their devices! In the CAD organization, you will create new software and technologies enabling other Apple engineers to develop products for millions of customers worldwide!
Description
As a member of our CAD team, you will develop, maintain, and enhance existing parasitics extraction flow for Apple’s successful silicon designs. You will use the most efficient RC analysis skills on various designs to diagnose and debug parasitic effects, guide and design improvement for balanced and minimized parasitic impact. Your experience and proficient usage of EDA extraction tools and methodologies will ensure parasitic RLC accuracy and circuit performance in post-layout simulations. You will use AI technology to quickly develop solutions to solve user issues. You can develop an RC-aware or RC-driven methodology for design optimization with various solutions including EDA vendor solutions, effective scripts and complex software.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of BS + 10 years of relevant industry experience
Preferred Qualifications
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Proficient in post-layout custom design flow, including LVS, Extraction, and Simulations.
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Experience as a power user or developer with extraction tools like StarRC and Quantus.
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Experience in sophisticated script development using Shell, Perl, Python, and TCL.
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Familiar with AIML workflows and have development experience of Skills and Plugin, and/or VSCode development.
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Problem-solving attitude and positive teamwork.
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Experience in general big data analysis is a plus.
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Ability to fluently speak and write in English.
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.
How this job compares
Set against the 42,005 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$121–200K/yr1,409 salary ranges
- Texas median$60–68/hr66 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,375 open Software Engineer jobs in Texas and 42,005 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,475 postings).
- Education
- 13,250 of the 42,005 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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