Digital Architect

Apple; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 171,600 - 302,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Stock purchase plan

Educational reimbursement

Discounted products and free services

Job summary

A leading technology company in Austin seeks an experienced ASIC Digital Architect to design innovative Touch Technologies. Responsibilities include creating digital system architecture and optimizing ASIC designs. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. and significant experience in embedded systems and digital design. The role offers competitive compensation ranging from $171,600 to $302,200, alongside comprehensive benefits, stock options, and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading chip architecture and/or digital design, preferably in touch or communications.
• Strong electrical engineering background in embedded system design, including ASIC microarchitecture and SoC architecture.
• Proficiency in MATLAB and Verilog, with experience in DSP or algorithm development.

Responsibilities

• Create Touch sensor digital system architecture.
• Develop low power signal processing algorithms.
• Author specifications for touch system ASICs.
• Define System-level micro-architectures.
• Optimize designs across multiple disciplines.

Skills

Chip architecture leadership

Digital design experience

Strong embedded system design

Excellent communication skills

MATLAB proficiency

Education

Ph.D. in a relevant field

Tools

Verilog

Job description

Overview

Design, develop, and launch next-generation Touch Technologies in Apple products. The Touch Technology team develops cutting-edge Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple’s products, including the iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, and more. The key goal of the Touch Technology team is to enable the world’s best multi-touch user-experience. The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation. The ASIC Digital architect is a key architect responsible for analyzing the application and coming up with cost and power optimized digital for the touch and other sensing ASICs. These designs may include one or multiple processors and/or DSP cores and microarchitecture of custom control engines. The description: You will be architecting Touch sensing systems and the ASICs required to realize them. You will be expected to take high level user requirements and create a realizable system that meets these goals. This will include high level modeling of proposed solutions, along with creating detailed specifications of the requirements. This is a highly cross-functional role, and you will work with others to identify critical aspects of how the design will interact with the overall product.

Responsibilities

• Create Touch sensor digital system architecture.
• Develop high performance, low power signal processing architectures and sensing algorithms to achieve the best touch solutions.
• Author detailed specifications, analyses, and characterization plans for touch system ASICs based on these architectures.
• Define System-level and IC micro-architecture of complex digital and mixed-signal ASICs, including requirements for: ARM processing, memory, bus, and DSP sub-systems and Power Management, clocking, I/O interfaces, and peripherals
• Optimize designs across multiple disciplines, including Hardware/Firmware design partitioning, trade-off assessments, design checking and tolerance analysis.
• Contribute technical assessments to strategic decision-making relating to technology and investments.
• Defect root cause analysis and resolution, including diligent bug database tracking.
• Communicate program status, technical issues, risks, and mitigations plans, clearly and concisely.
• Minimal business travel as needed to support product development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading chip architecture and/or digital design is desirable, preferably in touch or communications.
• Experience developing and launching high volume IC designs
• Strong electrical engineering background in embedded system design, including: ASIC microarchitecture, computer architecture, SoC architecture, and custom or standard DSP or hardware accelerator microarchitecture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skills.
• Experience with IC bring-up and debug
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Verilog, or similar simulation, design and modeling tools.
• Experience with DSP and/or algorithm development is a plus.
• Direct experience with touch technology and/or flat panel display technology is beneficial.
• Ph.D. and a minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $171,600 and $302,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.