Apple
SerDes Micro Architect
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS degree in a technical discipline.
About the job
Define the microarchitecture of next-generation analog mixed-signal SERDES IP for Apple silicon, verify performance, and support system bring-up and factory testing.
What you'll do
- Define microarchitecture for analog mixed-signal IP, especially SERDES.
- Review firmware and analog and digital circuits, and verify designs against performance requirements.
- Coordinate with evaluation, verification, and signal integrity teams; lead debug during system bring-up and factory test.
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, optimization, communications, information theory, equalizers, timing recovery, system identification, DSP, or system tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with mixed-signal modeling in Python/MATLAB/C/C++, circuit simulation tools, Machine Learning concepts, or firmware/embedded software development.
Pay
USD $184,700 to $324,800 base salary
Tools
Python, MATLAB, C, C++
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