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ASIC Design Engineering Lead - SoC IP DMA

Apple· Hardware
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Sunnyvale, CA$216.2k - $394kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Hands-on ASIC Design Engineering Lead at Apple, guiding a team centered on SoC IP DMA design. Balances people management with technical leadership across front-end design (microarchitecture, RTL, debug), ensuring silicon-ready quality and fostering collaboration, learning, and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of engineers through the full front-end design cycle (microarchitecture, RTL delivery, debug).
  • Provide high-level technical guidance, drive micro-architectural decisions, review team work, and ensure quality across the design activity.
  • Drive development of design infrastructure, automation, and strategic use of AI and other emerging tools.
  • Act as hands-on contributor across micro-architecture, RTL design, verification strategy, debug, and infrastructure development.
  • Scope features, generate effort/area/power estimates, and create bottom-up project schedules and resourcing plans.
  • Partner with architecture, IP integration, chip integration, design verification, and formal verification teams to align on plans and milestones.
  • Track execution, surface and resolve risks early, communicate with management and stakeholders.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers; invest in technical and professional development of each member.
  • Foster a team culture focused on collaboration, intellectual honesty, design/idea sharing, and growth mindset.
  • Manage interpersonal dynamics and build strong relationships within the team and with cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

  • BS and a minimum of 20 years relevant industry experience
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in front-end ASIC design
  • Experience in technical leadership: accountable for multi-person deliverables, setting technical direction, and interfacing with management and cross-functional partners
  • Experience managing people on a team strongly desired
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and cross-functional collaboration instincts
  • Excellent project planning and execution skills: bottom-up scheduling, effort, area, and power estimation, milestone planning and execution, and resource management
  • Solid understanding of SoC architecture and high-performance designs, particularly for high-speed networking, AI/ML compute, image and video processing, and/or memory subsystems
  • Understanding of design concepts including arbitration, flow control, address translation, caching, bandwidth, pipelining, real-time QoS, and AMBA protocols (AXI, APB, etc)
  • Understanding of low-power design techniques including clock gating, power gating, and logic depth; timing optimization and high-frequency design
  • Track record of driving innovation through tools, infrastructure, automation, and strategic use of emerging technologies including AI
  • Formal verification experience a plus

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementFront-end ASIC designArchitecture collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission potential
  • Relocation assistance possibly available
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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