RTL Design Engineer

Apple is seeking a results-oriented and highly motivated RTL Design Engineer to join its world-class mixed-signal silicon design team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to expand your chip design career by tackling unsolved challenges in a technical and multi-disciplinary environment.

Responsibilities:

• Specify and/or micro-architect digital blocks in sophisticated mixed-signal circuits.
• Perform RTL coding of blocks specified by yourself or others.
• Participate in design verification and bring-up of blocks by writing assertions and debugging code.
• Collaborate with the design verification team to ensure quality and functionality.
• Contribute to lab bring-up by writing test scripts, analyzing lab data, and proposing experiments.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience.

Skills:

• Proven knowledge of RTL design, Verilog, and SystemVerilog.
• Deep understanding of front-end tools (Verilog simulators, linters, CDC, RDC, LEQ, UPF).
• Familiarity with low power design methodologies and techniques.
• Experience with ECO design flows and methodologies.
• Understanding of mixed signal concepts and analog circuit behavioral modeling.
• Knowledge of synthesis, static timing, and DFT.
• Proficiency in SystemVerilog assertions, checkers, and design verification techniques.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Perl, JSON, Python).
• Experience using GenAI tools for design and validation of SystemVerilog RTL code.
• Understanding of digital signal processing fundamentals.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.