DRAM Design Validation Engineer

Summary

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better.

It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions.

Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices.

About the role

In this position, we will be ensuring the successful integration of DRAM memories with SoC devices for Apple products!

Core Responsibilities could include

• Working with design, verification and integration engineers to ensure memory controller requirements are well defined and cover the scope of DRAM based corner cases
• Collaborating with Architecture and DRAM vendors for Apple’s main memory solution
• Ensuring DRAM simulation
• Ensuring the internal and external DRAM silicon and package level testing

• Drive the validation and qualification of DRAM with memory vendors
• Debugging RMA material with apparent DRAM related defects
• Collaborating with the DRAM vendors to improve test coverage

Drive roadmaps and specs of memory vendors for next technology node devices

Minimum Qualifications

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert in DRAM cell architectures
• Expert of DRAM memory organization and periphery design for low DRAM power
• Expertise in DRAM simulation
• Experience in memory interface verification with understanding DDR-PHY and Memory Controller

Experience in LPDDR IO (DDR/DDR2/DDR3/DDR4/DDR5) characterization and qualification

• Understanding of memory test patterns
• Knowledge of DRAM reliability
• Knowledge with innovative packaging technology (POP, TSV, etc.) and their relationship to DRAM signal/power integrity

• Previous experience in Failure Analysis of DRAM devices
• Excellent hardware and software debug skill
• Experience working with the major DRAM vendors
• Strong background in computer architecture
• Programming experience in C/C++