Apple
ASIC Design Engineer — Neural Engine DMA
$150K–$278K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3 years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree.
About the job
Own the design of Neural Engine DMA subsystem blocks, from microarchitecture specification through RTL implementation, front-end signoff, and tapeout.
What you'll do
- Develop and sign off DMA RTL, including synthesis, timing closure, area and power analysis, linting, and logic equivalence checks.
- Write parameterized RTL, assertions, and cover points to support correct design and verification.
- Collaborate with architecture, design verification, formal verification, and physical implementation teams on design trade-offs and functional correctness.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least 3 years of industry experience.
Nice to have
- SoC front-end RTL experience through at least one tapeout, or experience designing DMA microarchitecture.
- Experience with on-chip bus protocols and interconnects, adjacent hardware domains, microarchitectural specifications, or design-automation scripting.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary range)
Tools
RTL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, AMBA AXI, AHB, APB, Python, Perl
AI focus
Design DMA engines that move model weights and activation tensors between memory and the Apple Neural Engine.
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