SRAM Circuit Design Engineer
Company | Apple |
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Location | Beaverton, OR, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.
- Work with an extraordinary logic/architecture team to formulate design specifications.
- Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area and yield.
- Schematic capture, simulations/analysis, margin verifications.
- Functional equivalency and DFT modeling.
- Work with layout team to create optimal GDS.
- Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.
- Backend verification, IR/EM.
- Write RTL, validate use-cases, verify against design schematics.
- Support post-silicon effort to enable productization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Work experience within a SoC design cycle, developing circuits and SRAM/Register File for low power, low voltage and high performance.
- Knowledge of Cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy is a huge plus.
- Working knowledge of RTL modeling.
- Solid understanding of industry-standard design tools.
- Deep understanding of nanometer device physics, leakage mechanisms, technology interactions with device behavior.
- Ability to devise experiments and analyze data for silicon debug.
- Machine Learning algorithms (ML) and scripting is a big plus.