Circuit Design Engineer

Apple • Santa Clara, CA

2d

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming
extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring
passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could
accomplish. Dynamic, amazing people and inspiring, innovative technologies are
the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with
all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our
products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the
world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking
Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As
a member of our dynamic group, you will have the extraordinary and rewarding
opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of
Apple’s customers every single day. These elements come together to make Apple
an amazing environment for motivated people to do the greatest work of their
lives. You will become part of a hands-on development team that sets the
standard in cultivating perfection, creativity and innovation. Will you help us
design the next generation of revolutionary Apple products? As part of Apple's
Silicon Engineering Group, you will help build the coolest next generation
products in the world. We are looking for highly motivated engineers to join our
team. As part of our Digital group, 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. Your efforts will be groundbreaking,
often literally. Join us, and you’ll help design the tools that allow us to
bring customers experiences they’ve never before envisioned. You will be part of
an exciting silicon design group that is responsible for designing
state-of-the-art ASICs. We have an extraordinary opportunity for Circuits
Engineers. In this role, you will be working with a team of circuit designers to
design advanced custom digital megacells (SRAM memories, on-chip sensors, ML
accelerators data path) used in a high performance / low power SOC. This highly
visible role as a member of our global hardware Infrastructure CAD Team will
support best in class tools and platforms to enable Apple designed silicon
components for the Silicon Engineering Group.

DESCRIPTION

Imagine yourself at the center of our SOC design effort, collaborating with all
disciplines, with a critical impact and 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 ideas, as well as work with a team
of hardworking engineers. You will perform the following: - Develop custom
circuits to improve chip power efficiency. - Work with power team, PD and
architects to define specifications and requirements. - Perform design,
analysis, modeling/simulation, circuit level specifications, schematic capture,
spice simulation / margin verification across PVT, statistical design,
functional verification and silicon bring up. - Work closely with layout team to
complete the design and oversee the layout quality. - Develop / drive circuit
methodology to achieve the highest design quality metrics.

Requirements

• Experience in design of low voltage custom circuits circuit
• Good understanding of deep submicron device physics, leakage
• mechanisms, technology interactions with device behavior
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python /Perl or others) and CAD automation tools.
• Knowledge of industry standard circuit simulation and design tools
• Bachelors or Masters in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• Experience in one or multiple of the following areas is highly desirable: Machine learning accelerators, SRAM circuits, non- volatile memories, weak / moderate inversion circuits, ultra-low power amplifiers, DC/DC converters, digital on-chip sensors, high speed clocking, time to digital converters (TDCs).

Responsibilities

• Develop custom circuits to improve chip power efficiency.
• Work with power team, PD and architects to define specifications and requirements.
• Perform design, analysis, modeling/simulation, circuit level specifications, schematic capture, spice simulation / margin verification across PVT, statistical design, functional verification and silicon bring up.
• Work closely with layout team to complete the design and oversee the layout quality.
• Develop / drive circuit methodology to achieve the highest design quality metrics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees