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Digital Design Engineer Lead - Custom Silicon Management

Apple· Hardware
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Cupertino, California, Austin, Texas, San Diego, California$175.5k - $311.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior-level role leading technical engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers for custom silicon in mobile devices, with a focus on digital design, verification, and collaboration across internal teams and external vendors to deliver first silicon on schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in architecture, implementation, verification, emulation and validation of custom silicon.
  • Trade off specific issues against system limitations.
  • Help improve engineering requirement specification documents for custom silicon.
  • Work with internal teams to assure that documents meets needs.
  • Work with external vendors in developing micro-architecture, verification and emulation of custom silicon.
  • Drive vendor’s methodology to meet Apple standards.
  • Target to achieve bug free first silicon to meet ambitious product schedules.

Qualifications

  • BS degree
  • Digital design engineering experience
  • Experience with FPGA emulation, silicon bring-up, characterization or debug.
  • 10+ years relevant industry experience.
  • Mixed signal design experience.
  • Experience with audio and power standards such as MIPI, Soundwire, I2S and SPMI.
  • Experience in the design of audio amplifier, codec and/or power converters.

Skills

Required:Digital designFPGA emulationSilicon bring-upMixed signal designAudio interfaces (MIPI, Soundwire, I2S, SPMI)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Education reimbursement (including tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (where eligible)
  • relocation assistance (where eligible)
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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