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Apple Hardware Engineer - Early Career United States, California, Cupertino 596219057
30.03.2024
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Key Qualifications
- Previous internship/co-op or project work in computer architecture, VLSI, design, logic design, or circuit design
- Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple functional teams across a variety of fields
- Experience with C/C++, Verilog, VHDL, Python, Perl, and/or Spice is beneficial
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related fields
- Will be graduating with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree by September 2023
Description
As a part of our team, you'll work on real challenges the team faces as well as upcoming products. To be successful, you need to have a strong technical foundation, ability to show initiative, learn new technologies quickly, and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ideal candidates are motivated and prepared to work independently. Below are the various areas you can explore:You will help in the verification and lab bring-up of advanced mixed-signal circuits. Deep knowledge of chip architecture/microarchitecture, front end pre-silicon design flow, RTL design/coding, logic design, Verilog/System Verilog, low power design, timing/power/performance analysis, C/C++In Design Verification, you will enable us to produce fully functional first silicon. Knowledge of chip architecture, Pre-silicon RTL design verification, System Verilog or UVM/OVM/VMM, block/chip/core test bench exp, System Verilog Assertion (SVA), C/C++/assembly, Perl/PythonYou will be focused on writing code for modeling and performance modeling for GPUs, CPUs, SoCs and other model infrastructure. C++, SystemC scripting; Python modeling for H/W verification, workloads, correlation, and analysis. experience in chip development environment with RTL and verification define, architect, design and implement and deploy models.You will develop and support chip level design methodology and flow. You'll be plugged into all tech nodes for chip delivery and be able to contribute on multiple projects. Must have excellent CAD flow programming and algorithm development knowledge. You will be collaborating with VLSI design and CAD teams, and EDA vendors to seek some of the most significant design problems. Strong analytical skills, effective communication and leadership qualities.In RF Integrity, you will engage with cross-disciplinary teams to develop SoCs that will be used in Apple’s mobile devices. Specifically, responsibilities include developing novel methodology to solve very complex coupling issues, mitigating multi-radio coexistence problems at IC, package/module, and systems, as well as executing RF design integration topologies. Prior RF circuit design and EM modeling experience is highly preferred.In Embedded Software Engineering, you will make up a significant portion of the Silicon Validation and Productization teams. Our embedded engineers develop, port, release, maintain, and enhance software to enable large scale testing of Apple’s SoCs. These engineers will integrate existing test software between environments, enhance test software to exercise functional blocks, develop Linux device drivers and user-land tests, implement device libraries to aid in the portability of device drivers, bring up low-level code on new SoCs and develop our own SMP RTOS. We have several types of embedded software engineers that focus on various aspects of the chip including feature validation (video, audio, display, etc.), IP validation, performance testing, micro-controller code, and low-level software. These engineers work in bare-metal, RTOS, and/or Linux environments to write software that runs on every Apple SoC in the design validation phase and downstream during manufacturing in the factory to identify bugs. C/C++ is the primary coding language (with some ARM Assembly) and Python is the primary scripting language.In this role, you will be on the forefront of development bringing innovations in the industry Electronic circuit design/development experience for microcontroller-based systems. Knowledge of inter-module communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.) and familiarity of embedded systems. Prior experience in batteries, portable consumer electronics, Power Supplies, Medical Electronics, or automotive electronics.You will work closely with multi-functional teams with an understanding of design specs and requirements for analog mixed signal (AMS) circuits, including SerDes, PLLs & Data Converters. Experience of designing AMS circuit blocks such as bandages, biasing circuits, LDO regulators, amplifiers, comparators, switched-cap circuits, ADCs, DACs, oscillators, filters. Device physics knowledge as it applies to analog IC design.You will develop advanced packaging technologies for a multitude of projects including SoC’s Hands on experience with Cadence ADP/SIP. Familiarity with Signal and Power Integrity fundamentals. You'll be responsible for package/SIP layout, optimization, design verification and taping out.You will work as either an FPGA or Emulation engineer who build prototypes on FPGAs, build emulation models, and perform emulation on each yet-to-be-built chip with the primary goal of debugging. Knowledge of chip architecture and design, industry standard interfaces, FPGA tool flow, Verilog, C/C++/assembly, Python/Perl/Tcl, and debugging.In the Digital Circuits Group, you will develop custom digital circuits and implement advanced circuit techniques to improve circuit performance, optimize dynamic/static power and support full bring-up through productization, design advanced custom digital megacells, SRAM memories/on-chip sensors, apply ML to hardware/custom designs, standard cells, register files, compilers, library architecture, digital layout. Preferred knowledge on digital circuit / low power design, developing caches, SRAM design, Verilog/RTL and/or VHDL, device physics, scripting, simulators and waveform debugging tools.In the Low Power Group, you will be involved in making Apple products the most energy efficient in the world. The power team is responsible for optimizing SOC power through modeling use cases, optimizing at the RTL and gate level, simulating idle, typical and max. power. Support for this work includes UPF implementation, checking and methodology, creating power simulation flows and doing detailed analysis, specifying electrical power integrity requirements and validating the power in the lab on product level development boards. Our group has a close collaboration with architecture, design, verification, physical design (PD), validation as well as systems and software teams to optimize use-cases at the product level. We use a wide range of skills across the team. Candidates should have an interest in energy efficiency and power optimization techniques. A knowledge of scripting is desired to improve one’s own efficiency.
Education & Experience
Pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science or related field of study.
Additional Requirements
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
- Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants. Learn more.
- Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you’re applying for a position in San Francisco, review the guidelines applicable in your area.
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- Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace. Learn more.
- This posting is not for a specific job opening and by submitting your resume you are expressing interest in being contacted about this type of role at Apple in the future.
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