Lead Digital Design Engineer, Custom Silicon Management

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Diego, CA
Salary: $166,600–$296,000 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Lead Digital Design Engineer, Custom Silicon Management

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The Digital Design Engineer Lead - Custom Silicon Management joins the Custom Silicon Management Group to drive technical engagements between internal teams and silicon suppliers. This role involves collaborating with multi-functional teams and external vendors to define, develop, and productize next-generation mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV. Key responsibilities include assisting in the architecture, implementation, verification, emulation, and validation of custom silicon while managing trade-offs against system limitations. The candidate will improve engineering requirement specifications and drive vendor methodologies to meet internal standards for bug-free first silicon. Required skills include digital design engineering experience with FPGA emulation, silicon bring-up, characterization, or debug. Preferred qualifications include mixed signal design experience and familiarity with audio and power standards such as MIPI, Soundwire, I2S, SPMI, and the design of audio amplifiers, codecs, and power converters.

Skills

Digital Design Mixed Signal FPGA Silicon Bring-up Characterization Debug MIPI SoundWire I2S SPMI Audio Amplifier Codec Power Converters Micro-architecture Verification Emulation

What you'll do

Assist in the architecture, implementation, verification, emulation, and validation of custom silicon.
Trade off specific technical issues against system limitations.
Improve engineering requirement specification documents for custom silicon products.
Collaborate with internal teams to ensure documentation meets project needs.
Work with external vendors to develop micro-architecture, verification, and emulation of custom silicon.
Drive vendor methodologies to align with Apple's technical standards.
Achieve bug-free first silicon to meet ambitious product schedules.

What we're looking for

Bachelor of Science degree.
Experience in digital design engineering.
Experience with FPGA emulation, silicon bring-up, characterization, or debug.
10+ years of relevant industry experience (preferred).
Mixed signal design experience (preferred).
Experience with audio and power standards such as MIPI, Soundwire, I2S, and SPMI (preferred).
Experience in the design of audio amplifiers, codecs, and/or power converters (preferred).

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