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IC Designer - Power Management

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, Texas), Hybrid (Sunnyvale, California)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Power management IC designer role focused on transistor-level designs for DC-DC converters and related IPs, involving concept feasibility, implementation, simulation, layout, production, and post-silicon validation in a collaborative team environment at Apple.

Responsibilities

  • Build concepts to overcome engineering problems in complex power systems.
  • Design blocks and documenting design towards formal design reviews.
  • Collaborate with mask design to construct layout collaterals.
  • Navigate through optimizations of power, area and performance or power IC designs.
  • Develop subcell and IP-level simulations to validate designs.
  • Define production and bench evaluation plans for post-silicon activities.
  • Take bench measurements to validate your own IC designs.
  • Review bench and production test results to drive bug fixes.
  • Complete designs considering ESD compliance of the circuits.

Qualifications

  • BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in industry for ICs going into production.
  • Proven experience with optimization of voltage regulator high level architecture and low-level circuits; knowing which are suitable for given applications.
  • Familiarity with buck, boost, LDOs, bandgaps, bias, comparators, and op-amps.
  • Versed in the electrical characteristics and physical construction of capacitors and inductors.
  • Qualified to review and provide feedback for printed circuit board designs from a power perspective and associated I/O.
  • Device physics knowledge in regard to analog and power such as transistor operation, optimization, parasitics, and performance.
  • Engineers skilled in analog IC design CAD tools and analysis flows to complete the designs for tapeout.
  • Experience modeling circuits in Matlab, VerilogA, Python, or C for concepts prior to implementation.
  • Validate analog/power designs on a lab bench using spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.
  • Design with detailed testability; write test plans for trim and calibration; collaborate with test engineers.

Skills

Required:Power management IC designHigh level architecture optimization of voltage regulatorsBuck, boost, LDOsCapacitors and inductors characteristicsESD complianceAnalog CAD tools and analysis flowsCircuit modeling (Matlab/VerilogA/Python/C)Bench validation skillsTest plan development and calibration
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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