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Digital Design Engineer Lead - Custom Silicon Management

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Cupertino, CA), Hybrid (San Diego, CA)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Digital Design Engineer Lead responsible for driving and leading technical engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers, focusing on custom silicon for mobile products. Role involves architecture, implementation, verification, emulation, and validation of custom silicon, with external vendors, to achieve bug-free first silicon and meet ambitious product schedules.

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-up
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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