RTL Design Engineer

Job Description

As an RTL Design Engineer at Apple, you will be responsible for specifying and/or micro-architecting digital blocks in advanced mixed-signal circuits with embedded micro-controller, advanced DFT architectures, and very low power design requirements. You will participate in the design verification and bring-up of these blocks, as well as front end methodology flows.

Requirements

• BS degree in technical discipline with minimum 10 years of relevant experience
• Deep knowledge of mixed signal concepts
• Deep knowledge of RTL design fundamentals (control and data path)
• Deep knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog
• Deep knowledge of front-end tools (Verilog simulators, linters, clock-domain crossing checkers, reset domain crossing, unified power flow, logic equivalence checkers)
• Working knowledge of synthesis, static timing, and DFT (scan, analog/digital functional/production test)
• Deep knowledge of System-Verilog assertions, checkers, and other design verification techniques
• Deep knowledge of scripting languages. Perl and Python are plusses
• Deep knowledge of Algorithm developments
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• SERDES architecture knowledge is a plus

Responsibilities

• Specify and/or micro-architect digital blocks in advanced mixed-signal circuits
• RTL coding of blocks specified by you or others
• Participate in design verification and bring-up of blocks
• Work on front end methodology flows including pre-silicon power analysis, clock domain crossing, reset domain crossing, and unified power flow (UPF)
• Participate in lab bring-up of circuits by potentially writing test scripts, analyzing lab data, proposing experiments, etc.