Digital Circuit Design Engineer

Apple•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design. Work with an extraordinary logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications. Define architecture/topologies optimizing power, timing, area and yield. Perform schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications. Conduct functional equivalency and DFT modeling. Work with layout team to create optimal GDS. Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications. Perform backend verification, IR/EM. Write RTL, validating use-cases, verifying against design schematics. Support post-silicon effort to enable productization. Collaborate with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. 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.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
Utilizing CAD tools including Cadence Virtuoso, Spice, simulators for design entry and analysis.
Debugging simulation failures on CAD software for logical verification.
Utilizing knowledge of transistor for circuit optimization.
Using clock gating and power gating for circuit power optimization.
Utilizing SRAM design skills to build and evaluate memory circuits.
Analyzing circuits and SPICE simulation to ensure robust operation.
Utilizing waveform viewers including Spice Explorer to verify circuit logic and timing.
Static Timing Analysis using PrimeTime or similar for static timing verification.

Responsibilities

Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.
Formulate design specifications.
Define architecture/topologies optimizing power, timing, area and yield.
Perform schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications.
Conduct functional equivalency and DFT modeling.
Work with layout team to create optimal GDS.
Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.
Perform backend verification, IR/EM.
Write RTL, validating use-cases, verifying against design schematics.
Support post-silicon effort to enable productization.
Collaborate with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.
Integrate and come up with new insights.
Implement groundbreaking techniques of Machine Learning, Circuit design in Apple’s marquee products like M1 and A14 Bionic.