Apple

Test Chip Design & Validation Engineer

Apple$141K — $258K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in a relevant field with 3+ years of industry experience.
  • Understanding of device physics and transistor basics.
  • Familiarity with VLSI design concepts, including memory designs and standard cells.
  • Experience with programming languages like Python, TCL, or PERL.
  • Knowledge of System Verilog and JTAG protocol.
  • Experience with TC1500 Protocol and IEEE1687 (STAR SMS MBIST protocol).
  • Proficient in statistical data manipulation and reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and validate custom IPs in silicon for Apple ASICs.
  • Collaborate with teams to test and debug digital and AMS circuits.
  • Compose system requirements for silicon validation boards.
  • Enhance validation architecture using feedback from various stakeholders.
  • Implement improvements based on lessons learned from previous testchips.
  • Understand and modify DFT DV test benches for debugging purposes.
  • Engage with silicon test engineers during production chip validation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
  • Retirement benefits and discounted products.
  • Tuition reimbursement for educational pursuits.
  • Participation in employee stock purchase programs.
  • Possible discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
  • Relocation assistance may be available.
Full Job Description
Do you want to apply your engineering background to make big things happen? As part of our Digital Design Engineering group, you'll take imaginative and revolutionary ideas and determine how to turn them into reality! You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals to bring forward-thinking ideas to the real world. You will join a hardworking design team which architects the test chip to validate the critical IPs developed for pioneering Apple product ASICs. The IPs validated by this team go into CPU, GPU, SoC, Neural Engine and other critical parts of Apple product silicon. In this highly visible role, you will be responsible to architect and thoroughly validate and characterize the custom IPs in silicon.

Description Imagine yourself at the start of a fast-paced new design cycle. You will work with production chip architects, front end and DFT teams, custom IP design engineers, test & product engineers, silicon validation systems engineers to realize detailed testing of the new IPs in prototype silicon. You will draw on a broad set of skills you have gained as an electrical engineer and be required to find novel ways to test and debug new digital and AMS circuits. In this role you will: - Understand custom IPs - Memories/Digital circuits, AMS IPs and silicon validation requirements. - Understand architecture of testschips, IP chiplets and logic macro blocks in-depth. - Improve IP validation architecture in testchip with pathfinding and feedback from consumers. - Assist with improving overall testchip eco-system by implementing lessons learned. - Compose system requirements for silicon validation boards to test IPs. - Understand high level architecture & hierarchy of production chips. - Work with silicon test engineers to validate custom IPs in production chips. - Understand DFT DV test benches and modify to enable debug testing.

Minimum Qualifications
  • BS in a relevant field of study and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience


Preferred Qualifications
  • Good understanding of Device Physics/Transistor basics.
  • Good grasp of basic VLSI design concepts, 6T/8T memories, Reg files, Standard cells, P&R, timing and DFT.
  • Python, TCL and/or PERL programming experience.
  • System Verilog familiarity.
  • JTAG protocol understanding.
  • Preferred Skills:
  • Knowledge of TC1500 Protocol.
  • IEEE1687 (STAR SMS MBIST protocol).
  • Statistical data manipulation and reporting.
  • Experience with FPGA based systems.


Pay & Benefits At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $141,800 and $258,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

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.

Apple Careers

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