Senior Digital Design Lead - Custom Silicon & Audio

Apple, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Digital Design Engineer Lead to drive and lead technical engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers for next-gen devices.

You will oversee architecture, implementation, verification, emulation and validation of custom silicon with cross-functional teams and external vendors. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality first silicon on aggressive schedules while pushing for design improvements and robust documentation through collaboration with internal teams

Qualifications

• Experience with FPGA emulation, silicon bring-up, characterization or debug.
• Ability to propose architecture and verify in collaboration with teams.
• Strong communication with vendors and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, verify, emulate and validate custom silicon.
• Trade off issues against system limitations.
• Improve engineering requirement documents for custom silicon.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure documents meet needs.
• Coordinate with external vendors on micro-architecture, verification and emulation of custom silicon.
• Drive vendor methodologies to meet Apple standards.
• Aim for bug-free first silicon to meet ambitious schedules.

Skills

FPGA emulation

Characterization / debug

Architecture collaboration

Tools

MIPI

Soundwire

I2S

SPMI

Job description

Apple Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Digital Design Engineer Lead to drive and lead technical engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers for next-gen devices.

You will oversee architecture, implementation, verification, emulation and validation of custom silicon with cross-functional teams and external vendors. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality first silicon on aggressive schedules while pushing for design improvements and robust documentation through collaboration with internal teams