Apple

SerDes Design and Validation Engineer

Apple$138K — $165K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree with at least 10 years of industry experience
  • Strong background in designing analog mixed-signal circuits
  • Experience with high-speed serial links and their protocols like PCIe, USB, DP, and MPHY
  • Familiarity with digitally assisted analog design and calibration techniques
  • Hands-on experience from IC development to production
  • Scripting and automation skills to boost efficiency
  • Interest in applying AI/ML concepts for silicon performance enhancement

Responsibilities

  • Lead SerDes system bring-up, ensuring robust performance and operations
  • Collaborate with design teams to define DFT needs for enhanced testability
  • Conduct mixed-signal verification to comprehend SerDes operations
  • Develop comprehensive test plans for effective PHY validation
  • Drive collaboration with production test teams for debugging
  • Analyze data to confirm robust IP design and functionality
  • Enhance design processes through innovation in analog DFT techniques

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Career growth potential in a leading tech company
  • Access to advanced tools and resources for product development
  • Involvement in high-impact projects influencing next-generation products
Full Job Description
Apple is looking for a SerDes Design and Validation Engineer to Lead system validation of mixed-signal SerDes IP. In this highly visible role, you will contribute to the design, integration and validation of high-performance analog and mixed-signal circuits for SerDes PHY applications. This encompasses the design and optimization of critical building blocks such as receivers, transmitters, bias generators, high-speed clock generation and distribution networks targeting best-in-class power, performance, and area metrics. A key part of your design responsibilities will include the development of analog DFT circuits and techniques essential for comprehensive PHY validation. You will develop test plans, review and analyze data to guarantee a robust IP design. You will drive and work closely with production test (e.g. ATE, system validation) teams and debug complex design and system bring-up issues.

Description

In this role, the key responsibilities are the following:

Ownership of SerDes system bring-up, validation and debug. This will involve a SerDes bring up in system environment, verifying basic operations, analyzing robustness and margins in system.

Work with design teams to understand the architecture and define DFT needs to help enhance testability and first-time silicon success.

Be involved in mixed-signal verification tasks to better understand the SerDes operation and interaction with higher level control logic.

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have experience in high-speed serial links with expertise in the following:

Solid understanding and experience of designing analog mixed signal circuit blocks including Bandgap, biasing circuits, LDO regulators, amplifiers, comparators, switched-cap circuits, ADCs, DACs, Oscillators, Filters.

Solid understanding of analog mixed-signal concepts like mismatch mitigation, linearity, stability, low-power and low-noise techniques.

Solid understanding and experience with digitally assisted analog design concepts (e.g. background calibrations, LMS based adaptive loops).

Hands-on experience to drive lab and production testing, debug, and data analysis

Hands-on experience with AMS IC development from definition to high-volume production including layout supervision, bench evaluation, correlation, and characterization.

Skills in scripting and automation to enhance efficiency are highly desirable.

Experience in high-speed serial links, with knowledge of common high-speed SerDes protocols like PCIe, USB, DP, and MPHY.

Knowledge of Tx/Rx equalization techniques and circuits, including CTLE, DFE, and de-emphasis, as well as CDR architectures and implementations.

Knowledge of common high-speed SerDes protocols (e.g., PCIe, USB, DP, MPHY) is highly desired.

Exposure to firmware assisted mixed signal IP development is desirable.

Knowledge and inquisitiveness in AI/ML domains, and ability to apply the concepts for improved silicon performance, and also for productivity improvements in the design/validation of the IP

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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