ASIC Design Engineer

Summary

Do you love crafting sophisticated 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.

You will join an IP design team efforts to enable new use cases for our customers. You will collaborate with all fields, making a critical impact in getting functional products to millions of customers quickly!

Description

As an ASIC Design Engineer in the IP design team, you will work closely with architecture, design, and verification teams to build high-performance designs. Apply your knowledge of computer architecture and digital design to enable high-bandwidth processing pipelines!

Responsibilities

• Coding high-quality RTL, with embedded assertions and cover points
• Writing detailed micro-architectural specifications
• Collaborating with multi-functional teams to explore solutions that improve performance while minimizing power and area
• Working closely with design verification and formal verification teams to debug and verify functionality and performance
  
  

• 5+ years of experience in digital design
• Prefer previous experience in USB4, USB3, PCIe, and/or DisplayPort
• Experience in SoC front-end ASIC RTL digital logic design using Verilog or System Verilog
• Experience working multi-functionally with architecture, design, and verification teams to specify, design, and debug
• Good collaboration skills with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with low-power design techniques such as clock- and power-gating is a plus
• Prefer familiarity with common on-chip bus protocols such as AMBA (AXI, AHB, APB)
• Experience in front-end implementation tasks such as synthesis, timing, area/power analysis, linting, and logic equivalence checks
• Industry exposure to and knowledge of ASIC/FPGA design methodology including familiarity with AI/ML applications, relevant scripting languages (Python, Perl, TCL)