Apple

Design for Test Engineer

Apple$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Currently pursuing a BSEE, MSEE, MSCE, or PhD degree.
  • Knowledge of ASIC design flow including frontend and design verification.
  • Experience in RTL design and achieving timing closure on complex designs.
  • Familiarity with SOC IP integration focusing on performance, low area, and low power.
  • Understanding of synthesis processes including DFT insertion and netlist generation.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the development design for large SOC blocks.
  • Integrate internal and external IP components effectively.
  • Develop specifications for design integration projects.
  • Optimize memory and macro components for SOC blocks.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful tapeout.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work alongside a talented team in a high-impact environment.
  • Hands-on experience in cutting-edge chip design processes.
  • Exposure to various multi-disciplinary project collaborations.
Full Job Description
Apple is looking for a talented and motivated Design for Test Engineer to be apart of a highly talented team. You will be at the heart of the chip design effort collaborating with all disciplines (vertical product model) with critical impact in getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.

Description

Own all aspects of development design for large SOC blocks including: Internal and external IP integration, design of system bus and control bus logic for connectivity of IP blocks to main SOC infrastructure, ownership of the Integration Spec for the design project, integration and optimization of any memories and hard macros required for the block, run synthesis, netlist generation, and timing closure for the block

Work closely with Chip Architecture, Design verification, Physical Design, DFT, and power teams to achieve first tapeout success on designs

Develop and maintain methodology/flows/checks for your design

Work with multi-disciplinary groups to make sure designs are delivered on time and with highest quality by incorporating proper checks at every stage of the design process

Minimum Qualifications

Enrolled in BSEE/MSEE, MSCE, or PhD program

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of the ASIC design flow, FE and Design verification, synthesis, scripting and netlist generation

Proven track record of high performance designs for low power applications, RTL design and timing closure on large complex designs

SOC IP integration and RTL Design for performance, low area, and low power

FE synthesis with DFT insertion

ASIC design flow and netlist flow checks - CDC, Logical Equivalence

UPF flow for power islands as well as voltage islands

Familiarity with DFT and backend related methodology and tools is a plus

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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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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