Senior Digital Design Lead – Custom Silicon & Audio

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Discounted products

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Digital Design Engineer Lead to drive and lead engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers for next‑gen devices.

The role focuses on architecture, verification, and validation of custom silicon, collaborating with internal teams and external vendors to meet aggressive schedules. You will influence, connect, and deliver results in a senior leadership capacity within the Custom Silicon Management Group, ensuring bug-free silicon and scalable designs for mobile products

Qualifications

• Experience with FPGA emulation, silicon bring-up, characterization or debug.
• 10+ years relevant industry experience.
• Experience with audio and power standards such as MIPI, Soundwire, I2S and SPMI.

Responsibilities

• Assist in architecture, implementation, verification, emulation and validation of custom silicon.
• Trade off specific issues against system limitations.
• Help improve engineering requirement specification documents for custom silicon.
• Work with internal teams to assure that documents meets needs.
• Work with external vendors in developing micro-architecture, verification and emulation of custom silicon.
• Drive vendor’s methodology to meet Apple standards.
• Target to achieve bug free first silicon to meet ambitious product schedules.

Skills

FPGA emulation

Silicon bring-up

Debug

Audio standards (MIPI, I2S, Soundwire,

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Digital Design Engineer Lead to drive and lead engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers for next‑gen devices.

The role focuses on architecture, verification, and validation of custom silicon, collaborating with internal teams and external vendors to meet aggressive schedules. You will influence, connect, and deliver results in a senior leadership capacity within the Custom Silicon Management Group, ensuring bug-free silicon and scalable designs for mobile products