Digital Architect

Summary

Design, develop, and launch next-generation Touch Technologies in Apple products.

The Touch Technology team develops cutting-edge Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple’s products, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac Books, and more. The key goal of the Touch Technology team is to enable the world’s best multi-touch user-experience. The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation.

Description

You will be architecting Touch sensing systems and the ASICs required to realize them. You will be expected to take high level user requirements and create a realizable system that meets these goals. This will include high level modeling of proposed solutions, along with creating detailed specifications of the requirements. This is a highly cross-functional role, and you will work with others to identify critical aspects of how the design will interact with the overall product.

• Create Touch sensor digital system architecture.
• Develop high performance, low power signal processing architectures and sensing algorithms to achieve the best touch solutions.
• Author detailed specifications, analyses, and characterization plans for touch system ASICs based on these architectures.
• Define System-level and IC micro-architecture of complex digital and mixed-signal ASICs, including requirements for: ARM processing, memory, bus, and DSP sub-systems and Power Management, clocking, I/O interfaces, and peripherals
• Optimize designs across multiple disciplines, including Hardware/Firmware design partitioning, trade-off assessments, design checking and tolerance analysis.
• Contribute technical assessments to strategic decision-making relating to technology and investments.
• Defect root cause analysis and resolution, including diligent bug database tracking.
• Communicate program status, technical issues, risks, and mitigations plans, clearly and concisely.
• Minimal business travel as needed to support product development.

• Experience leading chip architecture and/or digital design is desirable, preferably in touch or communications.
• Experience developing and launching high volume IC designs
• Strong electrical engineering background in embedded system design, including: ASIC microarchitecture, computer architecture, SoC architecture, and custom or standard DSP or hardware accelerator microarchitecture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skills.
• Experience with IC bring-up and debug
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Verilog, or similar simulation, design and modeling tools.
• Experience with DSP and/or algorithm development is a plus.
• Direct experience with touch technology and/or flat panel display technology is beneficial.
• Ph.D. and a minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $201,300 and $367,400, 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.