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# Digital Design Engineer Lead - Custom Silicon Management

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $175,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Codecs, Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Emulators, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27996743/Digital-Design-Engineer-Lead-Custom-Silicon-Management-Texas-Austin-7413

## About the Role

BS degree

Digital design engineering experience

Experience with FPGA emulation, silicon bring-up, characterization or debug.

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years relevant industry experience.

Mixed signal design experience.

Experience with audio and power standards such as MIPI, Soundwire, I2S and SPMI.

Experience in the design of audio amplifier, codec and/or power converters.

## Description

Are you a leader? Do you want to utilize your engineering background to make big things happen? Can you influence, connect, get results and communicate effectively? Can you deliver on a predictable and dynamic schedule? We have an extraordinary opportunity for senior level engineers to drive and lead technical engagements between Apple and silicon suppliers working on groundbreaking technologies., Imagine yourself at the center of our hardware development effort where you will collaborate with all subject areas, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.

You will have the opportunity to integrate and come-up with new insights, as well as work with vendors to promote efficiency in the Silicon community. We value your technical understanding of digital design principles.

Responsibilities

Assist in architecture, implementation, verification, emulation and validation of custom silicon.

Trade off specific issues against system limitations.

Help improve engineering requirement specification documents for custom silicon.

Work with internal teams to assure that documents meets needs.

Work with external vendors in developing micro-architecture, verification and emulation of custom silicon.

Drive vendor's methodology to meet Apple standards.

Target to achieve bug free first silicon to meet ambitious product schedules.


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