ASIC Design Engineer — Neural Engine DMA

Apple

Full-time other-general
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Location
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Posted
July 13, 2026

Job Description

**Role Number:** 200670680-3956

**Summary**
Computational photography, live language translation, and countless other on-device AI
capabilities depend on moving enormous amounts of data between memory and compute at
exactly the right time. As part of our Silicon Engineering Group, you will own the design
of high-performance DMA engines responsible for moving model weights and activation tensors
between the memory subsystem and the Apple Neural Engine.
In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of DMA subsystem blocks and collaborate
closely with architecture and verification teams across the full front-end design cycle.
The work you deliver ships in Apple products used by billions of people every day.

**Description**
As an ASIC Design Engineer on the ANE DMA Design team, you will own the design of DMA
subsystem blocks from microarchitecture specification through tapeout. ANE DMA's scale
and complexity means grappling with: fetch...