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Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions?

Be a part of a world-class silicon design team which delivered an incredible high performance M1 chip for our Mac line of products and chips for our flagship products (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Airpods, HomePod and Watch).

As part of our Digital Custom Group (DCG), you'll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing forward-thinking ideas to the real world. Join us, and you'll help design the foundation that allows us to bring customers experiences they've never before envisioned!

This is a highly visible role at the heart of a silicon design effort, making a critical impact delivering products to market quickly. Your designs will strongly influence CPU / GPU / SoC / Neural Engine / Camera designs in Apple's Custom Silicon group.

Description

Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort. Where you will collaborate with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come up with new insights, work with a team of hardworking engineers, and implement groundbreaking techniques of Machine Learning, Circuit design in Apple's marquee products like M1 and A14 Bionic.

As an SRAM Circuit Designer for the Digital Custom Group, you will perform the following:

- Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.

- Work with an extraordinary logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications.

- Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area and yield.

- Schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications.

- Functional equivalency and DFT modeling.

- Work with layout team to create optimal GDS.

- Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.

- Backend verification, IR/EM

- Write RTL, validate use-cases, verify against design schematics.

- Support post-silicon effort to enable productization.

Preferred Qualifications

We are looking for applicants with work experience within a SoC design cycle, developing circuits and SRAM/Register File for low power, low voltage and high performance.

Knowledge of Cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy is a huge plus.

Working knowledge of RTL modeling.

Solid understanding of industry-standard design tools.

Deep understanding of nanometer device physics, leakage mechanisms, technology interactions with device behavior.

Ability to devise experiments and analyze data for silicon debug.

Machine Learning algorithms (ML) and scripting is a big plus.

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, 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 $175,000 and $308,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's 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 at Apple, 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 Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

About Apple

Working at Apple means doing more than you ever thought possible and having more impact than you ever imagined.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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