CAD Validation DevOps Engineer

Austin,Texas,United States

Hardware

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our HW Technology org, youll help design 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 devices!

**Description**

Validation CAD engineering plays a major role in creating, maintaining, and promoting a robust system of advanced verification/validation workflows our project teams heavily rely on to accomplish critically important verification tasks for our chips. In this highly impactful role, you will be responsible for tooling and workflows used by GPU teams (to start with) involved in all stages of the GPU development lifecycle, from early feature specification through silicon bring-up and beyond. You will work with other teams from engineering sites around the globe towards the shared goal of ensuring that Apple GPUs meet the highest quality and efficiency standards. This job involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and mission-critical tooling and workflows for GPU verification and other teams, such as Platform Engineering, Silicon Validation, Performance and Software teams.

**Minimum Qualifications**

**Key Qualifications**

Strong software development background

Expertise in Python, Perl, Kotlin and/or TCL is required

Experience in Cloud Computing, DevOps and Infrastructure

Experience in version control software (ie. Git, Perforce)

Experience in continuous integration/continuous delivery solutions (ie. GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins, etc) is a plus

Emulation experience on any available platforms, Palladium, Veloce or Zebu is a plus

Machine Learning experience is a plus

Strong communication skills are a pre-requisite, as you will collaborate with multi-functional groups, previous customer support is a plus

Experience in graphics device driver capture is a plus

Ability to come up with initiatives and drive them from concept to production

Must have worked on significant project(s) that brought high ROI to the team/company

Must be comfortable with co-developing an existing system

**Preferred Qualifications**

**Education & Experience**

Minimum requirement of BS 10 years of relevant industry experience.

**Additional Requirements**

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