Apple
SerDes Micro Architect
$175K–$308K
Irvine, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Defines and verifies analog mixed-signal SERDES IP microarchitecture for Apple silicon, coordinating system requirements, evaluation, verification, and bring-up debug.
What you'll do
- Define microarchitecture for analog mixed-signal IP, especially SERDES design.
- Review firmware and analog/digital circuits and verify 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.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Experience defining high-speed SERDES receiver, transmitter, and clocking blocks; expertise in adaptation, optimization, communications and information theory, equalizers, timing recovery, system identification, and DSP.
- Familiarity with mixed-signal modeling in Python/MATLAB/C/C++, circuit simulation, Machine Learning, or firmware/embedded software.
Pay
$175,000 to $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python, MATLAB, C, C++
AI focus
Familiarity with Machine Learning concepts is preferred; no specific AI development work is described.
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