Apple
SerDes Micro Architect
$166K–$292K
Waltham, Massachusetts · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Define next-generation SERDES analog mixed-signal IP microarchitecture for Apple silicon, verify performance, and lead system bring-up and factory-test debugging.
What you'll do
- Define microarchitecture for analog mixed-signal IPs, emphasizing SERDES design.
- Review firmware and analog and digital circuits, and verify designs meet 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.
- At least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Experience defining high-speed SERDES receiver, transmitter, and clocking blocks; knowledge of adaptation and optimization algorithms, communications and information theory, equalizers, timing recovery, system identification, DSP, and system tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with mixed-signal modeling in Python/MATLAB/C/C++, circuit simulation tools, Machine Learning concepts, or firmware/embedded software development.
Pay
$165,800 to $292,400 USD base salary
Tools
Python, MATLAB, C, C++
AI focus
Familiarity with Machine Learning concepts is preferred; no specific AI work is described.
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