Apple
DDR Design Engineer
$175K–$308K
Irvine, California · Full-time · Posted Dec 22, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS degree in a technical discipline.
About the job
Design and verify DDR PHY digital logic from concept and architecture through silicon bring-up and characterization.
What you'll do
- Conduct concept studies and guide design tradeoffs for performance, gate count, and power; write design specifications and test plans.
- Create RTL with assertions, use formal tools and static checkers, and support verification, coverage, and timing closure.
- Support silicon bring-up and performance and power characterization.
What they ask for
- BS degree in a technical discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
Nice to have
- RTL design using Verilog or SystemVerilog and assertion writing; experience with state machines, data paths, arbitration, or clock domain crossing logic.
- Logic synthesis, timing constraints, DFT, Unified Power Format, equivalence checking, or prior DDR PHY and mixed-signal experience.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Verilog, SystemVerilog, Unified Power Format
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