Silicon Validation Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

3d•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. APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA.

Requirements

Master‘s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Circuits and Systems, or related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Characterizing and validating high-speed serial interfaces (e.g., PCIe, USB, OIF, Ethernet).
Executing bring-up and validation of SerDes links across multiple protocols.
Performing link margining, eye diagram analysis, and jitter tolerance testing using real-time and sampling oscilloscopes, BERTs, and pattern generators.
Developing and maintaining automation scripts for high-volume SerDes testing to streamline data collection and analysis.
Implementing data visualization pipelines to summarize BER, eye height/width, and adaptation results across sweeps and temperature conditions.
Building machine learning models to predict BER trends or optimize equalization parameters using lab data.
Utilizing experience in Signal integrity and familiar with the Vector network analyzer.
Facilitating automation using Python.
Implementing Machine learning and AI-based optimization.
Performing RTL coding and creating RTL scripts for testing.

Responsibilities

Bench testing, debugging, and characterization of embedded on-chip circuitry (PLLs, DLLs, Clocks, Data Converters, DDR Memory, and various I/O Interfaces)
Develop benchtop electrical tests exercising on-chip circuitry through a combination of FPGA, JTAG, SPI, and analog interfaces.
Draft & Execution of scripts to automate tests, extract results, and generate reports using database and analytical tools.
Generate reports for characterization and/or debugging to provide design feedback.
In-system PI/SI measurements for correlation with simulation models.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Design, System HW, and SW.
Support ATE and Product Engineering.