Apple
SoC Audio Engineer, Platform Architecture
$175K–$278K
Austin, Texas +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California
San Diego, California - Experience
- Preferred: 10+ years of relevant industry experience with a Master's degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree; preferred Master's degree.
About the job
Defines and owns multi-generational audio subsystem architecture and roadmaps for Apple SoCs, balancing performance, power, and area across product lines.
What you'll do
- Define audio subsystem architecture specifications and technical roadmaps across SoC product lines.
- Model audio workload performance and power to guide subsystem sizing, partitioning, and trade-offs.
- Collaborate across engineering teams from concept through tape-out, present findings, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience with SoC architecture principles
- Experience with SoC audio processing
Nice to have
- Master's degree with 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience defining SoC audio, DSP, or signal processing subsystem specifications; expertise in SoC concepts, DSP, PPA optimization, audio interfaces, and hardware/software co-design
Pay
$175,000 and $263,300 USD base salary; $184,700 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
DSP, I2S, PDM, TDM, MIPI SWI3S, System Verilog
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