Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer
Apple· Hardware
Melbourne, FLFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Role focused on defining, designing, and bringing to production analog and mixed-signal circuits and sub-systems for Apple’s integrated circuit devices, with cross-functional collaboration and emphasis on high-precision analog design, test planning, and production readiness.
Responsibilities
- Participate in defining, designing, developing, and taking to production analog and mixed-signal circuits and sub- systems within Apple integrated circuit devices.
- Specify, design, implement, and verify analog and mixed-signal circuits and sub-systems, including transistor-level analog circuits, mixed-signal interfaces, and digital control and signal processing blocks.
- Develop and run high-level simulations to validate top-level integration.
- Engage with cross-functional teams (analog, digital, DV, firmware, software, SoC architecture, technology, packaging, silicon validation, production test, manufacturing) to implement new circuits and sub-systems and drive them into production.
- Define production and bench-top test-plans, analyze results, and drive DOEs.
- Create integration guides and user documents, and assist with challenges in implementing new circuits and sub-systems into complex SoCs.
Qualifications
- BS degree in technical discipline required.
- Experience conceptualizing, evaluating, designing, and taking to production analog and mixed-signal circuits and sub-systems for sensing and measurement; experience within digital-intensive SOCs preferred.
- Expertise in high-precision circuit design in presence of large device mismatch and high supply noise.
- Deep knowledge of device physics as it applies to semiconductor devices and manufacturing technology.
- Solid understanding of ADC/DAC architectures, performance metrics, design trade-offs, and criteria for selecting ADC/DAC designs for different applications.
- Solid understanding of building block circuits for measurement sub-systems (band-gaps, CMOS bias generators, TIAs, op-amps, filters, switched-cap circuits, LDOs, ADCs, etc.).
- Solid understanding of precision analog design techniques including feedback and compensation, chopping, dynamic element matching, frequency planning, trimming/calibration, and real-time adaptive algorithms; AI/ML experience to optimize such techniques valued.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills; ability to distill key issues from complex technical situations.
- Experience with production test engineers to develop and validate test plans, optimize production testing, and debug sources of low-DPPM parametric yield loss valued.
- Experience in C / MATLAB / Verilog modeling; proficiency in Python programming.
- Experience with AI/ML, especially applying tools/techniques to analog/mixed-signal circuit design and productization valued.
Skills
Required:Analog IC designMixed-signal circuit designADC/DAC architecturesPython programmingC/MATLABCommunication
Nice to have:PCB/SoC test planningVerilog modelingAI/ML in analog/mixed-signal design
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- Accessibility and inclusion commitments
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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