Senior ASIC Power Engineer

Would you like to join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team? Our wireless SOC organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development with a particular emphasis on highly energy-efficient / low-power design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by a world-class vertically integrated engineering teams. In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of low-power architecture, power modeling and correlation efforts with a critical impact on getting functional products to hundreds of millions of customers quickly. Will you join us and do the best work of your life here?

Description

In this role, and as part of our team, you are going to work on power modeling, analysis and correlation tasks for wireless communication SoCs, including:

1. Define power-efficient SOC architecture and schemes, write power spec.
2. Estimate pre-silicon power, build wireless application and atomic power model with high accuracy.
3. Define and generate power vectors with Design and DV support.
4. Collect pre-silicon power data using power flow and tools.
5. Analyze and identify power reductions.
6. Support post-silicon power correlation.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• ASIC power knowledge.
• Power tool, e.g. PTPX and Power Artist knowledge and experience.
• Understand ASIC logic design.
• Knowledge of low power design and UPF.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Shell, Perl or Python).
• Basic knowledge on common SOC components, e.g. CPU, fabric, peripherals and PCIe.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pre-silicon Power modeling experience.
• Actual low power design experience.
• Wireless knowledge, including WIFI, BT and UWB.
• ASIC PD, STA knowledge.
• In depth knowledge of common SOC components, e.g. CPU, fabric, peripherals and PCIe.
• Post-silicon functional debug and power correlation experience.

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