Apple
RTL Design Engineer
$123K–$214K
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 11, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
About the job
Design, verify, integrate, and support lab bring-up of RTL for mixed-signal digital circuits and signal-processing pipelines.
What you'll do
- Specify and implement digital and DSP blocks in RTL, translating signal-processing algorithms into efficient hardware.
- Write assertions and testbenches, participate in verification, and debug designs with verification teams.
- Integrate IP and support silicon lab characterization by analyzing data, proposing experiments, and validating performance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
Nice to have
- Front-end design and verification tools, synthesis, static timing analysis, DFT, and formal or low-power design methods.
- DSP implementation experience, Perl or Python scripting, hardware-software co-design, or intermediate-to-advanced GenAI proficiency for hardware design.
Pay
$122,700 and $214,300 USD base salary
Tools
Verilog, SystemVerilog, Perl, Python
AI focus
Use AI tools for SystemVerilog design, validation, and optimization, and understand GenAI capabilities and limitations in hardware design.
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