What are the responsibilities and job description for the DFT CAD Engineer position at Apple?

Summary

Posted: Nov 13, 2023

Role Number:200520398

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 all the things they love with their devices! Our Hardware Technology team is responsible for Apple’s breakthrough custom silicon and hardware technologies including battery, applications processors, storage controllers, sensors silicon, display silicon and other chipsets across Apple’s entire product line. As part of our CAD and Methodology team in Apple’s world-class Silicon Engineering Group, you will be involved with the complete DFT and ATPG CAD solution for all design projects.

Key Qualifications

Knowledge about industrial standards and practices in DFT, including ATPG, JTAG and MBIST
Experience in debugging Compressed ATPG patterns, MBIST, and JTAG/1500 related issues.
Experience with Perl or Tcl or Python scripting languages
Exposure to industry standard DFT and ATPG Tool required
Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL, and experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools preferred
Familiarity with synthesis tools preferred.

Description

- Develop and implement DFT and ATPG flow - Participate in development and implementation of DFT architecture with design team - Work with the DFT and Synthesis CAD team to verify DFT implementations - Support tool and infrastructure to generate structural test vectors, analyzing and improving coverage. - Work with DFT designers on STA, physical, power and logical issues - Drive DFT and ATPG vendor engagements