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ASIC Design Engineer - Pixel IP ANE

Sunnyvale, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • ASIC Design
  • Pixel IP ANE
  • RTL Design
  • Formal Verification
  • Physical Design
  • Synthesis
  • Static Timing Analysis
  • Clock Domain Crossing
  • DFT
  • BIST

Nice to have

  • Machine Learning
  • AI
  • Apple Neural Engine
  • Bus Topologies
  • AMBA
  • High Speed Design

Role summary

Join Apple's Hardware Technologies group as an ASIC Design Engineer specializing in Pixel IP ANE. You will design next-generation Apple Neural Engine components for AI/ML products, impacting millions of users. This highly visible role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams including architecture, verification, power, and physical design. Responsibilities include RTL design, verification, synthesis, static timing analysis, clock domain crossing analysis, and ensuring testability with DFT and BIST teams. Extensive knowledge of computer architecture and bus protocols like AMBA is required.

Are you interested in working on complex, high performance machine learning system? As part of our Hardware Technologies group, you’ll help to design our next-generation Apple Neural Engine. You will work on designs that will contribute to the future generation of products on AI/ML aspect, that will be used by millions! As AI and ML are making a huge difference in our life, joining our team and contribute to this trailblazing field with high growth. In this is a highly visible role, you’ll be able to collaborate with many cross-functional teams, making impactful differences to Apple products.

Description


As part of the Pixel IP ANE design and integration engineer in pixel IP team, you will work closely with different cross functional team, including architecture, verification, power, physical design and more. Extensive knowledge of computer architecture is required, including bus topologies and protocols, such as AMBA. This role includes the following tasks: - Doing RTL design on high speed, high performance subsystem. - Working with design verification and formal verification teams to fully verify design and performance - Working with physical design and static timing team to produce high quality netlist through synthesis. - Analyze clock domain crossing design for correctness - Working with DFT, and BIST team to ensure design can be fully tested.

Minimum Qualifications


BS + 10 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications


Extensive knowledge of bus topology, such as AMBA Experience working on large, high speed, compute system Good knowledge base on Clock Domain Crossing designs Experience with Synthesis Experience with Static Timing Analysis Experience working with Power Intent

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