Mixed Signal Verification Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

22h

About The Position

Does making the next great technology product excite you? Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, our new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. We bring passion and dedication to our job and when you are a part of that team there"s no telling what you could accomplish. Design Verification Engineers at Apple are responsible for verifying the functionality and performance of Apple’s premier SOCs. This is a critical job within Apple"s Hardware Technology organization, and we"d love to have you join us. You will own RNM/SystemVerilog behavioral modeling and verification of analog/RF blocks (regulators, bandgaps, data converters, LNA/PA, mixers, PLLs) inside a large SoC, including self-checking models, assertions for analog/digital specs, and AMS environment setup with analog designers.

Requirements

• Minimum requirement of a bachelors degree.
• Strong fundamentals in analog/RF circuit theory/topologies.
• Experience with RNM coding in SystemVerilog.
• Ability to read analog schematics and extract related main functionality.
• Experience modeling mixed signal/RF blocks including biasing networks, power regulators, bandgaps, Opamp"s, OTA"s, data converters, LNA, PA, mixers, couplers, splitters, combiners, etc…

Nice To Haves

• MS and at least 3 years of industry experience is preferred.
• Experience working with Cadence mixed signal verification environment.
• Experience modeling high frequency PLL"s is desired.

Responsibilities

• Own the modeling and verification of advanced analog/RF blocks residing within a large SoC.
• Development of RNM RF/Analog models in SystemVerilog.
• Develop models with self-checking techniques.
• Assess required model accuracy level depending on verification goals.
• Develop appropriate assertions to ensure analog/digital specs are respected and provide digital verification passing criteria.
• Work with Analog designers setting up AMS simulation environment.
• Debug complex chip digital-on-top testbenches and seek root causes for failures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior