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DDR Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

DDR PHY design engineer responsible for concept studies, architecture definition, RTL design and verification, timing closure, and silicon bring-up for high-performance, low-power DDR designs within Apple’s DDR PHY design team.

Responsibilities

  • Perform concept studies and provide direction on performance, gate count, and power for digital designs.
  • Write detailed design specifications and test plans in collaboration with architecture, circuit designers, and verification engineers.
  • Provide high-quality RTL descriptions, including assertions.
  • 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.
  • 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:VerilogSystemVerilogAssertionsClock domain crossingFSMs and data pathsTiming constraints
Nice to have:Design for Test (DFT)Equivalence checkingUnified Power Format (UPF)/UPF for sim/synthesis

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation opportunities
  • Apple shareholder eligibility through stock programs
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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