DDR Design Engineer
Apple· Hardware
Waltham$116.4k - $203kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
DDR PHY design engineer role focused on RTL design, verification, and bring-up for high-performance, low-power applications within Apple’s DDR PHY design team in Waltham, MA.
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 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
- Bachelor 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 machine designLogic synthesis
Nice to have:DFT/scanUnified Power FormatEquivalence checking
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and free services
- Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be eligible
- Employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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