Apple

SerDes System Validation Engineer

Apple$100K — $130K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field required.
  • Experience in high-speed serial links and SerDes protocols (PCIe, USB, DP, MPHY).
  • Expertise in designing analog mixed-signal circuit blocks (e.g., Bandgap, LDOs, ADCs, DACs).
  • Strong understanding of analog mixed-signal concepts like linearity and low-power techniques.
  • Hands-on experience with AMS IC development and production testing, including layout supervision.
  • Scripting and automation skills for efficiency enhancement are highly desirable.
  • Knowledge of AI/ML applications in silicon performance and design validation.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in validation and debugging of embedded circuits within Analog-Mixed/Signal design team.
  • Oversee SerDes system bring-up, validating operations and analyzing robustness.
  • Collaborate with design teams to define DFT needs for improved testability.
  • Involved in mixed-signal verification tasks to understand SerDes operation better.
  • Drive lab and production testing, including data analysis and debugging efforts.
  • Enhance efficiency through scripting and automation in design processes.
  • Support the delivery of high-quality hard IPs by closely working with designers.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to collaborate on cutting-edge technology in a high-visibility role.
  • Work within a talented team dedicated to quality and innovation.
  • Involvement in the full lifecycle of analog mixed-signal IP development.
  • Chance to apply knowledge of AI/ML to real-world challenges in silicon performance.
Full Job Description
In this highly visible role, you will actively work within Analog-Mixed/Signal design team and participate in validation and debug of embedded circuits; collaborating with many subject areas to enable the world's premiere products. You will closely work with a talented group of Analog-Mixed/Signal designers working diligently to deliver hard IPs to Apple's products while exceeding the highest expectations of quality, innovation and efficiency!

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 improve 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.

Bachelors degree required.

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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