Low-Power ASIC Design Engineer

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Employee stock program

Comprehensive medical and dental

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA, is seeking researchers to advance low power semiconductor designs. The role focuses on developing and verifying power-efficient ASIC techniques, prototyping with RTL, and validating circuits for reliability and testability.

Responsibilities include creating automation tools to scale design modifications and evaluating power savings across system levels. A Master’s degree and experience in low power design are required, with relocation possible.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
• Experience or education must include low power ASIC design to explore and prototype novel low power methods.
• Prototyping and simulating energy efficient CMOS or mixed-signal circuits to implement design prototype.

Responsibilities

• Research new low power methods and power intent verification.
• Review current design flows and methodologies to identify scope for power reduction.
• Prototype test designs in RTL and circuits to prove new low power schemes.
• Synthesize and validate low power designs for functionality, reliability and testability.
• Develop software to automate design modifications for wide-scale adoption of novel methods.
• Estimate power savings and assess impact on system power, performance and area.
• Design and simulate novel energy efficient circuits.

Skills

Low Power ASIC design

Power intent verification

Automation scripting

Education

Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tools

Tcl scripting

Python scripting

Perl scripting

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA, is seeking researchers to advance low power semiconductor designs. The role focuses on developing and verifying power-efficient ASIC techniques, prototyping with RTL, and validating circuits for reliability and testability.

Responsibilities include creating automation tools to scale design modifications and evaluating power savings across system levels. A Master’s degree and experience in low power design are required, with relocation possible.