Apple

ASIC Design Engineer - Neural Engine DMA

Apple$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  • Familiarity with Verilog or SystemVerilog
  • Understanding of finite state machines and pipelining
  • Exposure to on-chip bus protocols like AMBA
  • Interest in system-level concepts regarding data flow
  • Background in high-bandwidth domains like AI or video processing
  • Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Tcl

Responsibilities

  • Design high-performance DMA subsystem blocks from specifications to tapeout
  • Write parameterized RTL for synthesis and low power operations
  • Execute front-end tasks like synthesis, timing closure, and power analysis
  • Collaborate with architecture teams on design requirements and solutions
  • Work with verification teams to ensure functional correctness
  • Debug design failures and review test plans
  • Ensure design behavior is thoroughly tested

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact projects used by billions
  • Collaborative work environment across cross-functional teams
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology in AI and digital design
  • Possibility for professional growth and learning in ASIC design
  • Engagement with core challenges in data movement and performance
Full Job Description
Computational photography, live language translation, and countless other on-device AI

capabilities depend on moving enormous amounts of data between memory and compute at

exactly the right time. As part of our Silicon Engineering Group, you will help

build the high-performance DMA engines responsible for moving model weights and activation

tensors between the memory subsystem and the Apple Neural Engine.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with architecture and verification teams

across the full front-end design cycle. The work you contribute

ships in Apple products used by billions of people every day.

Description

As an ASIC Design Engineer on the ANE DMA Design team, you will contribute to the design

of DMA subsystem blocks from microarchitecture specification through tapeout.

High-performance DMA involves hard problems in data movement, throughput, and correctness.

In this front-end design role, your work will include:

- Writing well-parameterized RTL structured for correct synthesis, clean timing, and low

power, along with assertions and cover points that encode design intent and ensure

verification completeness.

- Executing front-end implementation tasks: synthesis, timing closure, area and power

analysis, linting, and logic equivalence checks.

- Collaborating with fellow designers and architecture teams to understand design

requirements, contribute to micro-architectural specifications, and develop solutions

that meet performance, power, and area targets.

- Working closely with design verification and formal verification teams to ensure

functional correctness: reviewing test plans, debugging failures, and ensuring the

design's intended behavior is fully exercised.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree plus 0 years of industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Verilog or SystemVerilog and core digital design fundamentals: finite

state machines, pipelining, parallelism, and timing.

Some exposure to on-chip bus protocols such as AMBA (AXI, AHB, APB).

Interest in or exposure to system-level concepts: how data moves through a SoC, flow

control between producers and consumers, memory system latency and bandwidth trade-offs,

and how hardware and software divide responsibilities at system boundaries.

Background in or curiosity about high-bandwidth domains: networking, image and video

processing, multimedia, or AI/ML.

Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl) for design automation.

Clear technical writing skills and the habits of asking good questions, flagging issues

early, and contributing constructively in design reviews.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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