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RTL Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Cary, NCFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role focused on specifying, designing, verifying, and supporting lab bring-up of sophisticated digital and mixed-signal circuits within Apple’s mixed-signal silicon design team. Opportunity to work with high-performance mixed-signal and analog IPs integrated into high-speed digital circuits, using software methods and analysis across silicon engineering flows.

Responsibilities

  • Specifying and/or micro-architecting digital blocks in sophisticated mixed-signal circuits
  • RTL coding of blocks
  • Participating in design verification and bring-up by writing assertions, debugging code, and collaborating with the verification team
  • Contributing to lab bring-up by writing test scripts, analyzing lab data, proposing experiments, etc.

Qualifications

  • BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
  • Proven knowledge of RTL design, Verilog and SystemVerilog
  • Deep knowledge of front-end tools (Verilog simulators, linters, CDC, RDC, LEQ, UPF)
  • Low power design methodologies and techniques to reduce dynamic and static IC power
  • ECO design flows and methodologies
  • Proven understanding of mixed signal concepts and experience with analog circuit behavioral modeling
  • Proven knowledge of synthesis, static timing and DFT
  • Proven knowledge of SystemVerilog assertions, checkers, and other design verification techniques
  • Knowledge of scripting languages (i.e. Perl, JSON and Python)
  • Using GenAI tools to design, validate, and optimize SystemVerilog RTL code
  • Digital signal processing fundamentals including signal processing concepts
  • Strong communication and presentation skills

Skills

Required:RTL designVerilogSystemVerilog assertionsFront-end toolsMixed-signal conceptsScripting
Nice to have:GenAI toolsDigital signal processing

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Inclusion and diversity initiatives
  • Accessibility and reasonable accommodations support
  • Competitive benefits package typical of Apple roles
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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