Job Details

Custom Circuit RTL Design Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: May 13, 2025

Role Number: 200604437

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. Do you have a passion for crafting entirely new solutions?

As part of our Digital Circuits Group, you'll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if needed, bringing forward-thinking ideas to the real world! Your efforts will be groundbreaking, often literally. Join us, and you'll help design the tools that allow us to bring customers experiences they have never-before envisioned. You will be part of an exciting silicon design group that is responsible for designing pioneering ASICs. In this role as a Custom Circuit RTL Design Engineer, you will be working with the custom circuits team to implement behavioral and structural RTL models of advanced custom digital circuits, translate specifications in assertions models, and verify equivalence of the RTL models to circuits. You will be at the heart of a processor design effort, making a critical impact delivering products to market quickly.

Description

In this highly visible role as a Custom Circuits RTL Design Engineer, you will be at the center of a SoC design effort collaborating with all teams, with a critical impact on getting bug-free functional products to market quickly. This requires you to work closely with the circuit design team to review design and architecture specifications and with various design teams across the SoC partitions to understand the use cases and corner conditions to develop test plans. Furthermore, you will be required to develop the methodology for test benches and coverage monitors for functional coverage and assertions. You will also work on improving the RTL methodology as applicable to simulation and emulation scenarios.

You will have the responsibilities as follows:
- Design and implement behavioral RTL models for various custom SRAM arrays.
- Work with logic/architecture team to determine specifications and assertions for custom SRAM arrays.
- Work closely with custom circuit team to review schematics and understand how the RTL must model it.
- Work closely with DV teams to verify functionality.
- Work with SOC teams to successfully integrate custom RTL design into chip.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of digital design, behavioral (including emulation-friendly) and structural RTL coding especially as it pertains to SRAM and register file design

• Knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog and experience with industry standard simulators and waveform debugging tools

• Knowledge of regression and revision control tools, and scripting language (python / perl)

• Knowledge of industry standard design and verification tools, such as ESPCV and/or LEC

• Knowledge of regression and revision control tools.

• Basic knowledge of viewing and understanding custom circuit schematics

• Knowledge of custom circuit and SRAM design and DFT (ATPG/MBIST) is desirable.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $136,300 and $248,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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