Apple
SerDes System Validation Engineer
$129K–$225K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree.
About the job
Leads system bring-up, validation, and debugging of mixed-signal SerDes IP, assessing basic operation, robustness, and margins while coordinating with design teams.
What you'll do
- Bring up SerDes in system environments and validate and debug its operation, robustness, and margins.
- Collaborate with design teams to understand architecture and define DFT needs that improve testability and first-time silicon success.
- Participate in mixed-signal verification to understand SerDes operation and its interaction with higher-level control logic.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Strong background in high-speed serial links.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-speed SerDes protocols, system bring-up, lab testing, and validation automation scripting such as Python, C, or Matlab.
- Knowledge of mixed-signal verification, DFT, SerDes architecture, equalization, jitter budgets, and silicon bring-up.
Pay
$129,300 to $225,300 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe, USB, UCIe, OIF, python, C, Matlab
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