Apple
SerDes Micro Architect
Beaverton, Oregon · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS degree in a technical discipline.
About the job
Defines the microarchitecture of next-generation analog mixed-signal IP, especially SERDES, and helps verify performance and bring up the system.
What you'll do
- Define microarchitecture for analog mixed-signal IP, with emphasis on SERDES.
- Review firmware, analog and digital circuits, and verify designs against performance requirements.
- Coordinate with evaluation, verification, and signal-integrity teams; lead debugging during system bring-up and factory testing.
What they ask for
- BS degree in a technical discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
Nice to have
- Experience defining high-speed SERDES receiver, transmitter, and clocking blocks.
- Expertise in adaptation and optimization algorithms, communications and information theory, equalizers, timing recovery, system identification, DSP, or system-performance tradeoffs.
Tools
Python, MATLAB, C, C++
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