SRAM Circuit Design Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking an SRAM Circuit Designer to join our Digital Custom Group. This role focuses on designing and implementing custom digital circuits for SRAM, shaping power, timing and area while collaborating with a top-tier silicon team.

You will write RTL, work with layout and verification teams, and contribute to post-silicon debugging. A BS and 10+ years in SoC/memory design are required, with deep knowledge of RTL, GDSII, and advanced process physics.

Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
• Experience in SoC/memory design, SRAM, and low-power/high-performance contexts.
• Strong RTL modeling, memory hierarchy knowledge and familiarity with standard design tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.
• Work with an extraordinary logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications.
• Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area and yield.
• Schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications.
• Functional equivalency and DFT modeling.
• Work with layout team to create optimal GDS.
• Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.
• Backend verification, IR/EM, Write RTL, validate use-cases.

Skills

RTL modeling

Circuit design

Memory design

DFT verification

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

GDSII

Layout tools

Simulation tools

Job description

Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions?Be a part of a world-class silicon design team which delivered an incredible high performance M1 chip for our Mac line of products and chips for our flagship products (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Airpods, HomePod and Watch).As part of our Digital Custom Group (DCG), you’ll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing forward-thinking ideas to the real world. Join us, and you’ll help design the foundation that allows us to bring customers experiences they’ve never before envisioned!This is a highly visible role at the heart of a silicon design effort, making a critical impact delivering products to market quickly. Your designs will strongly influence CPU / GPU / SoC / Neural Engine / Camera designs in Apple's Custom Silicon group.

Description

Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort. Where you will collaborate with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come up with new insights, work with a team of hardworking engineers, and implement groundbreaking techniques of Machine Learning, Circuit design in Apple’s marquee products like M1 and A14 Bionic.As an SRAM Circuit Designer for the Digital Custom Group, you will perform the following:- Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.- Work with an extraordinary logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications.- Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area and yield.- Schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications.- Functional equivalency and DFT modeling.- Work with layout team to create optimal GDS.- Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.- Backend verification, IR/EM- Write RTL, validate use-cases, verify against design schematics.- Support post-silicon effort to enable productization.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• We are looking for applicants with work experience within a SoC design cycle, developing circuits and SRAM/Register File for low power, low voltage and high performance.
• Knowledge of Cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy is a huge plus.
• Working knowledge of RTL modeling.
• Solid understanding of industry-standard design tools.
• Deep understanding of nanometer device physics, leakage mechanisms, technology interactions with device behavior.
• Ability to devise experiments and analyze data for silicon debug.
• Machine Learning algorithms (ML) and scripting is a big plus.

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