Do you love building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies 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 all the things they love with their devices! In the IP quality assurance tools developer role, you will help define, implement and support scalable solutions to verify the quality of hard IP collateral used to construct our world class SoCs. You will be tasked to improve the quality of the IP releases and the productivity of the design teams. This role fits a self-motivated, dedicated problem solver with strong automation and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate among cross-functional teams. Your accomplishments will be impacting a wide range of chips used across Apple’s world-class products (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods…)
Description
As a member of the IPQA development team, you will interact with teams to plan, analyze, implement and maintain scalable software solutions. Your systems will manage and verify collateral for hard IP, including standard cell, IO libraries, memories and IP from internal and external design teams and foundries.You will be a member of a small, focused, skilled and dedicated software team. You will gain exposure to many IP views from different EDA tools/vendors and numerous design flows. Exposure to these tools and flows will expand your knowledge to support the design teams’ delivery needs.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience in developing object-oriented Python applications
- Experience in object-oriented design and programming
- Experience in version control software like GIT or similar
- Experience in unit testing
- Experience with Unix
- Minimum requirement of BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in Python and Python ecosystem
- Experience in software development lifecycle
- Experience in regression, continuous integration and delivery
- Experience with shell scripting
- Experience with modern web and UI frameworks
- Experience with job scheduling systems in a high performance compute environment
- Experience with dependency aware flow control tools
- Experience with hard IP quality assurance space
- Support and software development experience of in-house tools
- Experience with hard IP collateral
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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