Apple
SerDes System Validation Engineer
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Leads system bring-up, validation, and debugging of mixed-signal SerDes IP, assessing operation, robustness, and margins in system environments.
What you'll do
- Bring up and validate SerDes in system environments; analyze operation, robustness, and margins.
- Collaborate with design teams to understand architecture and define DFT needs that improve testability and first-time silicon success.
- Support mixed-signal verification to understand SerDes operation and interaction with higher-level control logic.
What they ask for
- BS degree.
- At least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-speed serial-link system bring-up, lab testing, and defining equipment needs.
- Knowledge of SerDes protocols, design and architecture, validation, DFT, mixed-signal verification, and silicon bring-up.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe, USB, UCIe, OIF, python, C, Matlab
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