HDL Tools Software Engineer, Platform Architecture

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what we can accomplish together. Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Can you intrinsically see the importance of every detail? Our Platform Architecture group is responsible for connecting our hardware and software into one unified system. Join this team, and you'll collaborate with engineers to build and deploy forward-looking prototype systems that contribute to the development of our world renowned hardware and software architecture. You and your team will confirm that every product we make performs exactly as intended. Together, our work will be the reason millions of customers feel that they can trust our devices every single day.

Our Platform Architecture group is seeking engineers to integrate and support new HDL simulation technologies for accelerating the development and verification of silicon. You will work with our world leading silicon engineering teams on next generation chips, which end up in the hands of millions of users worldwide.

• Migrate existing designs and testbenches from simulation and emulation platforms
• Develop software tools for co-simulating designs on multiple platforms
• Support design and verification teams in the use of this new technology
• Work independently and manage deliverables to different teams
• Occasional travel to development groups in the US

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar
• Experience programming in Verilog / SystemVerilog for RTL design or testbench
• Experience programming in C/C++
• Experience scripting in Python, Lua or similar scripting language

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience architecting simulation compilation and verification flows
• Experience architecting HDL testbenches for functional verification
• Comfortable exploring unfamiliar codebases and quickly integrating solutions
• Experience with compilers, parsers, or code-generation
• Experience with emulation testbench development and support
• Experience with multithreading or multiprocessing software

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