DRAM Design Validation Engineer

Summary

Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly sophisticated challenges? 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, we will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices.

As our DRAM Design Validation Engineer, you will be ensuring the successful integration of DRAM memories with SoC devices

Description

Work with our design, verification and integration engineers to ensure memory controller and PHY requirements are well defined and cover the scope of DRAM based corner cases.

Collaborate with Architecture, MCU, DDRPHY and DRAM vendors for Apple’s main memory feature

Ensure DRAM simulation meets Apple's requirements

Ensure the internal and external DRAM silicon and package level testing needs are met.

Debug RMA material with apparent DRAM related defects.

Collaborate with the DRAM vendors to improve the DRAM performance and power on Apple systems

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

Minimum Qualifications

PhD or MS or BS Degree with 5+ years in DRAM development

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++

Excellent interpersonal skills and teamwork.