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DDR Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Waltham, MA$165.8k - $292.4k + bonusfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

DDR Design Engineer in the DDR PHY design team responsible for RTL design, verification support, and silicon bring-up for high-performance, low-power applications.

Responsibilities

  • Perform concept studies and provide direction on performance, gate count and power for various digital designs.
  • Write detailed design specifications and test plans in collaboration with architecture, circuit designers and verification engineers.
  • Provide high-quality RTL description, including assertions, for the design.
  • Use formal tools and static checkers to guarantee RTL quality.
  • Support design verification to ensure bug-free first silicon.
  • Drive functional and code coverage as well as timing closure for designs and support silicon bring-up, performance and power characterization.

Qualifications

  • BS degree in technical discipline with minimum 10 years of relevant experience
  • RTL design using Verilog or SystemVerilog, assertion writing
  • Design of state machines, data paths, arbitration and clock domain crossing logic
  • Logic synthesis, timing constraints
  • Exposure to Design For Test, understanding of scan concept and writing DFT friendly RTL
  • Unified Power Format for simulation, synthesis and electrical rule checking Equivalence checking
  • Prior experience in DDR PHY design and mixed-signal environment is a plus

Skills

Required:Verilog / SystemVerilogState machines, data paths, arbitration, clock domain crossingLogic synthesis & timing constraintsDesign For Test (DFT) and scanUnified Power Format (UPF) / equivalence checking
Nice to have:DDR PHY design experience

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (eligibility varies)
  • Relocation assistance (eligibility varies)
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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