Summary

Posted: Dec 2, 2020

Role Number:200209726

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experienc...Summary

Summary

Posted: Dec 2, 2020

Role Number:200209726

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what we can accomplish together.

Do you love pursuing big challenges that require especially creative solutions? Can you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? Do you strive to craft elegant solutions to highly complex challenges?

Our Platform Architecture group is responsible for connecting our hardware and software into one unified system, and we design technologies to work seamlessly in unison. Join this team, and you'll develop forward-looking prototype systems in collaboration with engineers across Apple. We take daring, revolutionary ideas and turn them into reality. You and your team will apply engineering fundamentals and start from scratch if need be. Together, our work will lead to the intuitive technology experiences that Apple is known for worldwide.

Apple's Platform Architecture Engineering group is seeking a skilled FPGA Design Engineer who will be responsible for design, implementation and bring-up of FPGA based prototypes.

Key Qualifications

• Strong logic design background with ability to do RTL design and verification using Verilog/System Verilog.
• Experience with High Level Synthesis with Vivado HLS, Catapult or Stratus. C/C++/SystemC knowledge for HLS.
• Ability to develop scripts using Perl/Python for automating various flows.
• Experience with FPGA tool flows (including Xilinx/Altera/Lattice) and bringup and debug of FPGA based designs.
• Experience with industry-standard protocols (PCI Express, USB, Ethernet etc.)
• Experience with common peripheral interfaces like I2C,SPI, high speed serial I/Fs etc.
• Standout colleague with excellent social skills.
• Ability to quickly pick up new concepts and chip in with innovative solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Collaborate with cross-function teams (including electrical, mechanical and software) in order to define prototyping hardware to evaluate new technologies and features.

Work independently and handle deliverables to align with project goals.

Design and Verification using Verilog and System Verilog.

Perform Synthesis/Place & Route, timing optimizations.

Perform bring-up, debug and validation of designs to achieve the desired goals.

Create thorough technical documents for each of the above steps.

Develop state of the art processes and flows to accelerate design and validation of prototypes.

Education & Experience

BS EE/CE - MS or PhD Preferred

Additional Requirements