Apple
SerDes Micro Architect
$175K–$308K
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2025
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS degree in a technical discipline.
About the job
Defines next-generation SERDES analog mixed-signal IP architecture, verifies design performance, and supports system bring-up and factory-test debug.
What you'll do
- Define microarchitecture for analog mixed-signal IP, especially SERDES.
- 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 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, and mixed-signal modeling.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python, MATLAB, C, C++
AI focus
Familiarity with Machine Learning concepts is preferred; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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