Job Description

Locations

• Austin, Texas, United States 78727

Salary

Skills Required

• designing custom digital circuitsintermediate
• SRAM designintermediate
• formulating design specificationsintermediate
• defining architecture/topologiesintermediate
• optimizing for powerintermediate
• optimizing for timingintermediate
• optimizing for areaintermediate
• optimizing for yieldintermediate
• schematic captureintermediate
• simulations/analysisintermediate
• margin verificationsintermediate
• functional equivalency modelingintermediate
• DFT modelingintermediate
• working with layout teamintermediate
• creating optimal GDSintermediate
• verifying extracted GDSintermediate
• backend verificationintermediate
• IR/EM analysisintermediate
• writing RTLintermediate
• validating use-casesintermediate
• verifying against design schematicsintermediate
• supporting post-silicon effortintermediate
• Machine Learningintermediate
• Circuit designintermediate
• collaboration with teamsintermediate

Required Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience. (experience, 3 years)

Preferred Qualifications

• We are looking for applicants with work experience within a SoC design cycle, developing circuits and SRAM/Register File for low power, low voltage and high performance. (experience)
• Knowledge of Cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy is a huge plus. (experience)
• Working knowledge of RTL modeling. (experience)
• Solid understanding of industry-standard design tools. (experience)
• Deep understanding of nanometer device physics, leakage mechanisms, technology interactions with device behavior. (experience)
• Ability to devise experiments and analyze data for silicon debug. (experience)
• Machine Learning algorithms (ML) and scripting is a big plus (experience)

Responsibilities

• Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort. Where you will collaborate with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to 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.
• As an SRAM Circuit Designer for the Digital Custom Group, you will perform the following:
• - Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.
• - Work with an extraordinary logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications.
• - Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area and yield.
• - Schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications.
• - Functional equivalency and DFT modeling.
• - Work with layout team to create optimal GDS.
• - Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.
• - Backend verification, IR/EM.
• - Write RTL, validate use-cases, verify against design schematics.
• - Support post-silicon effort to enable productization.

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