CAD Engineer - PDV
Apple - Austin, United States of America
Posted Jan 29, 2026
Benefits
- Parental leave
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- Non-birth-parent leave
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- Family-building benefits
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- Mental health support
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- Verification
- Not verified checked Jun 13, 2026
- Salary
- $147K-$272K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
- 401(k) match
- Reported from DOL Form 5500 industry filing (not employer-specific)
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
80% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
CAD Engineer - PDV Austin, United States of America 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. As a member of our CAD team, you will architect, develop, maintain and improve physical design verification (PDV) flows. The role requires you to work on flow and runset development for various technology nodes and tool sets. Working alongside the CAD team, you will be collaborating with the custom digital/analog/mixed-signal design, physical design (PD) and chip integration teams. With good understanding of design rule checks (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) runsets, you will develop rule decks from scratch and/or modify existing ones. You will also have opportunities to develop ML/LLM based automations and solutions. -Develop, improve and maintain various aspects of physical verification flow and methodology -Coordinate the effort of validating flows, improving for custom checks and data generation -Work with the design and PD teams to facilitate the chip design process -Code custom PDV rule decks such as Electrical rule checks (ERC) and Programmable ERCs -Collaborate
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