Analog Mixed Signal Firmware Engineer

Summary

Imagine what you could do here at Apple? Together we could help craft the next generation of the world’s finest devices. New ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your career, and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The team is searching for a self-motivating, passionate electrical engineer for the role of AMS Firmware Engineer. As a team, we will be working on the leading-edge technology nodes to build elite custom analog designs used to connect our world-class products to the physical world as well as enable optimizing their performance. You will become part of a hands-on development team that fosters engineering excellence, creativity and innovation. Collaboration across teams is a key component of success at Apple. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. Will you help us design the next generation of revolutionary Apple products?

Description

Specify, design, and help in the verification and lab bring-up of advanced mixed-signal circuits (digital side)

Responsibilities

• In this job you will be responsible for specifying and/or micro-architecting digital blocks in advanced mixed-signal circuits.
• You will be also responsible for RTL coding of blocks specified by you or others.
• You will participate in the design verification and bring-up of such blocks by writing relevant assertions, debugging code, and otherwise interacting with the design verification team.
• You will participate in the lab bring-up of those circuits by potentially writing test scripts, analyzing lab data, proposing experiments, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of mixed signal concepts
• Knowledge of RTL design
• Knowledge of Verilog and SystemVerilog
• Knowledge of front-end tools (Verilog simulators, linters, clock-domain crossing checkers)
• Good communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master´s degree or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or proven industrial experience/degree equivalent
• Good knowledge of scripting languages. Perl and Python are plusses
• Good knowledge of synthesis, static timing, DFT, is a plus
• Good knowledge of SystemVerilog assertions, checkers, and other design verification techniques are a plus