Apple

IC Designer - Power Management

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

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience in ICs production environments
  • High proficiency in voltage regulator architecture and low-level circuits
  • Understanding of key components like buck, boost converters, and LDOs
  • Ability to review PCB designs focused on power aspects
  • Familiarity with simulation tools such as Matlab, VerilogA, Python, or C

Responsibilities

  • Conduct transistor-level designs for various blocks in ICs
  • Lead feasibility studies for new concepts and designs
  • Collaborate to solve engineering challenges in power systems
  • Document designs and prepare for formal reviews
  • Work with mask design teams on layout creation
  • Optimize IC designs for power, area, and performance
  • Develop simulations to validate designs and prepare for production

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth
  • Access to state-of-the-art technology
  • Participation in innovative projects for Apple products
Full Job Description
In this role, you will be responsible for transistor-level designs of various blocks in ICs including both DC-DC converters and related auxiliary IPs. You may start with early feasibility studies of new concepts/designs and carry them through implementation, simulation, layout, and production.

We work in a team environment to build sophisticated power management solutions for Apple products. Collaboration within and outside of our group is an integral part of our work:
• Build concepts to overcome engineering problems in complex power systems.
• Design blocks and documenting design towards formal design reviews.
• Collaborate with mask design to construct layout collaterals.
• Navigate through optimizations of power, area and performance or power IC designs.
• Develop subcell and IP-level simulations to validate designs.
• Define production and bench evaluation plans for post-silicon activities.
• Take bench measurements to validate your own IC designs.
• Review bench and production test results to drive bug fixes.
• Complete designs considering ESD compliance of the circuits

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years of experience in industry for ICs going into production.

Proven experience with optimization of voltage regulator high level architecture and low-level circuits; knowing which are suitable for given applications.

Familiarity with buck, boost, LDOs, bandgaps, bias, comparators, and op-amps.

Versed in the electrical characteristics and physical construction of capacitors and inductors.

Qualified to review and provide feedback for printed circuit board designs from a power perspective and associated I/O.

Device physics knowledge in regard to analog and power such as transistor operation, optimization, parasitics, and performance.

We seek engineers skilled in analog IC design CAD tools and analysis flows to complete the designs for tapeout.

Experience modeling circuits in Matlab, VerilogA, Python, or C for concepts prior to implementation.

Validate analog/power designs on a lab bench using spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.

Design with detailed testability; write test plans for trim and calibration; collaborate with test engineers.

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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$63.9 billion
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1976
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