Apple
Digital ASIC Architect
$175K–$325K
San Francisco Bay Area, California +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, California
Austin, Texas
San Diego, California - Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
About the job
Own the architecture of motion-sensing digital ASICs from concept through silicon, translating product requirements into modeled, specified hardware for Apple products.
What you'll do
- Define and evaluate digital architecture, including processor, DSP, memory, interfaces, power and performance trade-offs.
- Develop sensing and signal-processing models, validate system interactions, and compare models with first-silicon results.
- Author specifications, lead architecture reviews, and drive issue resolution from bring-up through production.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- At least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Expertise in digital ASIC architecture for sensor or mixed-signal systems, including processor/DSP subsystems, memory and bus architecture, and custom control engines.
- Experience taking complex ICs from architecture through production, or with sensing algorithms, modeling, bring-up, characterization, or system-level debug.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD (base salary); $184,700 and $324,800 USD (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, Python, SystemC, C/C++
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