SRAM Circuit Design Engineer - Austin, United States
Originally posted 31 July 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 1 October 2026.
Design SRAM for Apple's M1 chip.
About the role
This role involves the design and implementation of SRAM as part of Apple's Digital Custom Group.
What you'll do
- Design and implement custom digital circuits for SRAM design.
- Define architecture/topologies optimizing for power, timing, area, and yield.
- Perform schematic capture, simulations/analysis, and margin verifications.
- Conduct functional equivalency and DFT modeling.
- Work with the layout team to create optimal GDS.
- Verify extracted GDS meets design specifications.
- Perform backend verification, IR/EM.
- Write RTL, validate use-cases, and verify against design schematics.
- Support post-silicon efforts to enable productization.
What you'll need
- BS degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Work experience within a SoC design cycle, developing circuits and SRAM/Register File for low power, low voltage and high performance.
- Knowledge of Cache design/architecture and memory hierarchy.
- Working knowledge of RTL modeling.
- Solid understanding of industry-standard design tools.
- Deep understanding of nanometer device physics, leakage mechanisms, and technology interactions with device behavior.
- Ability to devise experiments and analyze data for silicon debug.
- Machine Learning algorithms (ML) and scripting.
Skills: SRAM Circuit Designer, custom digital circuits for SRAM, Cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy, nanometer device physics
This role has been open 65 days — below the 69-day median for Memory Design roles.
Memory Design · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
287
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Median days open
69 d
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Median salary
$205k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (287 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 287 |
| Median days open | 126 d | 69 d (+57 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: SRAM Circuit Designer, custom digital circuits for SRAM, Cache design/architecture, memory hierarchy, nanometer device physics
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 151 open roles · median 86 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 49 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 32 d
- Broadcom · 16 open roles · median 50 d
- Qualcomm · 12 open roles · median 149 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 287 open Memory Design (Memory Design) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.