Apple
RTL Design Engineer
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Design, verify, integrate, and support lab bring-up of digital and mixed-signal RTL blocks, including signal-processing implementations.
What you'll do
- Specify and micro-architect digital and signal-processing blocks; develop RTL and translate DSP algorithms into efficient implementations.
- Write assertions and testbenches, participate in functional verification, and debug designs with verification teams.
- Integrate IP and support silicon lab characterization, including test scripting, data analysis, and performance validation.
What they ask for
- BS degree.
- At least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Front-end tools, synthesis, static timing analysis, DFT, formal verification, low-power design, or advanced verification experience.
- DSP implementation experience, scripting in Perl or Python, hardware-software co-design, or intermediate-to-advanced GenAI proficiency for hardware design.
Pay
$184,700 to $324,800 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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