RTL Design Engineer

Overview

Summary
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At Apple, we work every day to craft products that enrich people's lives. If you're passionate about taking on unsolved challenges, we have a great opportunity for a results-oriented and highly motivated RTL Design Engineer. This is an exciting position in the world class Apple mixed-signal silicon design team!

This role will build upon your solid foundation in digital logic circuits while introducing mixed-signal and analog circuit design and features. You will work with a variety of flows fundamental to modern silicon engineering: modeling and integrating high-performance mixed-signal and analog IPs into high-speed digital circuits, ensuring formal equivalence between custom designs and their abstract representations. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience in software methods and analysis, which are increasingly crucial across the semiconductor industry.

As a member of our dynamic team, you will have the exceptional opportunity to help create the next generation of products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple customers every day. You will work to specify, design, verify, and support lab bring-up of sophisticated digital and mixed-signal circuits with signal processing capabilities.

• RTL Design & Implementation:
  Develop and optimize RTL code in Verilog/System Verilog for mixed-signal digital blocks and signal processing pipelines
• DSP Algorithm Translation:
  Collaborate with algorithm engineers to translate DSP concepts (filtering, transforms, modulation, signal analysis) into efficient, high-performance RTL implementations
• Design Verification:
  Write comprehensive assertions, unit-level test benches, and participate in functional verification using industry-standard methodologies
• Integration & Bring-up:
  Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate complex IPs, validate performance in silicon, and support lab characterization
• Collaborative Problem-Solving:
  Work effectively with analog designers, algorithm engineers, verification specialists, and system architects across disciplinary boundaries

• Front-end tools expertise (Verilog simulators, linters, clock-domain crossing checkers)
• Synthesis, static timing analysis, and design-for-test (DFT)
• System Verilog assertions, checkers, and advanced verification techniques
• Scripting languages (Perl, Python)
• Formal verification and low-power design methodologies
• Hardware-software co-design and system-level optimization
• Hands-on DSP experience: signal processing concepts, RTL algorithm implementation, hardware optimization techniques (pipelining, parallelization, resource sharing)
• Intermediate to advanced GenAI proficiency:
  Using AI tools for System Verilog design, validation, optimization, and understanding GenAI capabilities/limitations in hardware design

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $258,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including:
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note:

Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.