DDR Design Engineer
Job Description
- Prior experience in DDR PHY design and mixed-signal environment.
- Perform concept studies and provide direction for digital designs (performance, gate count, power).
- Write detailed design specifications and test plans in collaboration with other engineers.
- Provide high-quality RTL description, including assertions, for the design.
- Support design verification to ensure bug-free first silicon.
- Drive functional and code coverage, as well as timing closure for designs.
- Support silicon bring-up, performance, and power characterization.
- BS degree in a technical discipline with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Proficiency in RTL design using Verilog or SystemVerilog and assertion writing.
- Experience designing state machines, data paths, arbitration, and clock domain crossing logic.
- Knowledge of logic synthesis and timing constraints.
- Exposure to Design For Test (DFT) and writing DFT friendly RTL.
- Familiarity with Unified Power Format for simulation, synthesis, and electrical rule checking.
- Experience with equivalence checking.
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Range of discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for career advancement
- Eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- Relocation assistance
- Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through employee stock programs
At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? Do you like changing the game? We have an opportunity for a visionary and uncommonly talented DRR Design Engineer. As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the rare and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of customers every single day. You will join the DDR PHY design team. We provide best-in-class PHY designs for high-performance, low power applications. As a logic design engineer, you will be involved in all phases of the design, from concept study, architecture definition, design and verification, to silicon bring-up and characterization.
In this role, you will be responsible for the following: Performing concept studies and provide direction in terms of performance, gate count and power for various digital designs. Writing detailed design specification and test plans in close collaboration with architecture, circuit designers and verification engineers. Providing high-quality RTL description, including assertions, for the design. Formal tools and static checkers will be used to guarantee RTL quality. Supporting design verification to insure bug-free first silicon. Driving functional and code coverage as well as timing closure for your designs. Supporting silicon bring-up, performance and power characterization.
- BS degree in technical discipline with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
- RTL design using Verilog or SystemVerilog, assertion writing
- Design of state machines, data paths, arbitration and clock domain crossing logic
- Logic synthesis, timing constraints
- Exposure to Design For Test, understanding of scan concept and writing DFT friendly RTL
- Unified Power Format for simulation, synthesis and electrical rule checking Equivalence checking
- Prior experience in DDR PHY design and mixed-signal environment is a plus
Base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $258,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Employees also have the opportunity to become a shareholder through participation in discretionary employee stock programs. Employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Benefits.
Note: Benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
