SRAM Circuit Design Engineer
Description For SRAM Circuit Design Engineer
Join Apple's world-class silicon design team that delivered the groundbreaking M1 chip and other custom silicon for flagship products including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Airpods, HomePod and Watch. As part of the Digital Custom Group (DCG), you'll be at the forefront of innovative hardware development, working on SRAM circuit design. This role places you at the heart of silicon design efforts, making critical impacts on CPU, GPU, SoC, Neural Engine, and Camera designs in Apple's Custom Silicon group.
You'll collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines, working with extraordinary teams to develop cutting-edge solutions. Your responsibilities will span from custom digital circuit design for SRAM to architecture optimization for power, timing, area, and yield. You'll be involved in the complete design cycle, from initial specifications through post-silicon productization.
The position offers the opportunity to work on industry-leading projects like the M1 and A14 Bionic chips, implementing groundbreaking techniques in Machine Learning and Circuit design. You'll be part of a team that transforms imaginative ideas into reality, bringing forward-thinking solutions to millions of customers worldwide.
This role requires deep technical expertise in SRAM/Register File design for low power, low voltage, and high-performance applications. You'll need strong knowledge of cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy, and industry-standard design tools. The ideal candidate will have experience with nanometer device physics, silicon debug, and RTL modeling.
Join Apple's hardware development effort and be part of a team that's revolutionizing the technology industry through custom silicon design. Your work will directly influence the next generation of Apple products, creating experiences that customers have never before envisioned.
Responsibilities For SRAM Circuit Design Engineer
- Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design
- Work with logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications
- Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area and yield
- Perform schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications
- Conduct functional equivalency and DFT modeling
- Work with layout team to create optimal GDS
- Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications
- Perform backend verification, IR/EM
- Write RTL, validate use-cases, verify against design schematics
- Support post-silicon effort to enable productization
Requirements For SRAM Circuit Design Engineer
- BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience
- Experience within a SoC design cycle
- Knowledge of Cache design/architecture and memory hierarchy
- Working knowledge of RTL modeling
- Solid understanding of industry-standard design tools
- Deep understanding of nanometer device physics
- Ability to devise experiments and analyze data for silicon debug
- Machine Learning algorithms and scripting knowledge is a plus
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