Senior Analog SerDes Design Engineer

Apple, Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking an IC Designer to develop high-performance AMS circuits for SerDes PHY, evaluating topologies and driving layout-level implementations. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure IP meets quality standards and timelines.

The role involves collaboration with architecture, packaging, board design, DFT/ESD teams, and SOC groups to deliver robust, low-power designs and to pioneer next-generation timing and calibration techniques.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of analog mixed-signal design with high-speed serial links.
• Solid experience designing analog blocks: Bandgap, biasing, LDOs, amplifiers, comparators, switched-cap circuits, ADCs, DACs, oscillators, filters.
• Knowledge of mismatch mitigation, linearity, stability, low-noise techniques.
• Familiar with digitally assisted analog design concepts and background calibrations.
• Experience with high-speed digital blocks and serializers/deserializers.
• Knowledge of 20+ Gbps NRZ/PAM Tx/Rx techniques (CTLE, DFE, de-emphasis).
• Familiar with CDR architectures and lab equipment/testing.
• AMS IC development from def. to production including layout supervision and bench evaluation.
• Experience with timing closure tools (e.g., Primetime, Nanotime).
• Experience in lab testing of high-speed SerDes I/O and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance AMS circuits for SerDes PHY with attention to PPA.
• Collaborate with architecture, packaging, board design, DFT, ESD teams to define specs.
• Drive transistor-level implementation and behavioral modelling; guide layout view and mask design.
• Work with SOC teams to deliver IP views meeting quality standards.
• Communicate progress and discuss new ideas in a cross-functional team setting.

Skills

Analog mixed-signal design

High-speed SerDes

CMOS/FinFET design

Lab testing and measurement

SystemVerilog/VerilogAMS

Python/Matlab

Digital design concepts

Tx/Rx equalization (CTLE/DFE)

CDR architectures

Scripting/Automation

Education

PhD/Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Apple is seeking an IC Designer to develop high-performance AMS circuits for SerDes PHY, evaluating topologies and driving layout-level implementations. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure IP meets quality standards and timelines.

The role involves collaboration with architecture, packaging, board design, DFT/ESD teams, and SOC groups to deliver robust, low-power designs and to pioneer next-generation timing and calibration techniques.