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DDR Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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San Diego, CA$122.7k - $214.3kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

DDR Design Engineer responsible for RTL design and verification within Apple’s DDR PHY design team, driving concept studies, architecture definition, design and verification, silicon bring-up and characterization for high-performance, low-power applications.

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, 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

  • Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering.
  • 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:RTL designAssertion writingState machinesClock domain crossingLogic synthesis
Nice to have:Design For Test (DFT)Unified Power Format (UPF)

Benefits

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

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