Drimva

Apple

DRAM Design Validation Engineer

$145K–$218K

Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2025

Experience
4+ years in DRAM development
Education
MS or BS Degree

About the job

Ensures DRAM memories are successfully integrated with SoC devices by validating requirements, simulations, testing, and defect analysis.

What you'll do

  • Work with design, verification, and integration engineers to define memory controller and PHY requirements, including DRAM corner cases.
  • Collaborate with Architecture, MCU, DDRPHY, and DRAM vendors; ensure simulations and silicon/package-level testing meet requirements.
  • Debug RMA material with apparent DRAM-related defects.

What they ask for

  • MS or BS degree.
  • 4+ years in DRAM development.

Nice to have

  • Expertise in DRAM cell architectures, memory organization and periphery design, simulation, and reliability.
  • Experience with memory interface verification, DDR-PHY and Memory Controller, LPDDR IO characterization and qualification, test patterns, packaging, failure analysis, DRAM vendors, computer architecture, or C/C++.

Pay

$144,600 and $218,000 USD base salary

Tools

DRAM, SoC, DDR-PHY, Memory Controller, LPDDR IO, C/C++, POP, TSV

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