Digital Architect

Apple

131d • $181,100 - $318,400

About The Position

Design, develop, and launch next-generation Touch Technologies in Apple products. The Touch Technology team develops cutting-edge Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple's products, including the iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, and more. The key goal of the Touch Technology team is to enable the world's best multi-touch user-experience. The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation. The ASIC Digital architect is a key architect responsible for analyzing the application and coming up with cost and power optimized digital for the touch and other sensing ASICs. These designs may include one or multiple processors and/or DSP cores and microarchitecture of custom control engines.

Requirements

• BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
• Strong electrical engineering background in embedded system design, including: ASIC microarchitecture, computer architecture, SoC architecture, and custom or standard DSP or hardware accelerator microarchitecture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skills.
• Experience with IC bring-up and debug.
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Verilog, or similar simulation, design and modeling tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading chip architecture and/or digital design is desirable, preferably in touch or communications.
• Experience developing and launching high volume IC designs.
• Experience with DSP and/or algorithm development is a plus.
• Direct experience with touch technology and/or flat panel display technology is beneficial.
• Ph.D. and a minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Create Touch sensor digital system architecture.
• Develop high performance, low power signal processing architectures and sensing algorithms to achieve the best touch solutions.
• Author detailed specifications, analyses, and characterization plans for touch system ASICs based on these architectures.
• Define System-level and IC micro-architecture of complex digital and mixed-signal ASICs, including requirements for: ARM processing, memory, bus, and DSP sub-systems and Power Management, clocking, I/O interfaces, and peripherals.
• Optimize designs across multiple disciplines, including Hardware/Firmware design partitioning, trade-off assessments, design checking and tolerance analysis.
• Contribute technical assessments to strategic decision-making relating to technology and investments.
• Defect root cause analysis and resolution, including diligent bug database tracking.
• Communicate program status, technical issues, risks, and mitigations plans, clearly and concisely.
• Minimal business travel as needed to support product development.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• A range of discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree