DDR Design Engineer

Apple • Waltham, MA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

At Apple, we work every day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. If you’re passionate about taking on unsolved challenges, we have a great opportunity for a results-oriented and highly motivated DDR 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 Apple’s 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.

Requirements

• Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in DDR PHY design and mixed-signal environment.

Responsibilities

• Performing concept studies and providing 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.
• Using formal tools and static checkers 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.

What This Job Offers

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