Apple
CPU Implementation Engineer
Beaverton, Oregon · Full-time · Posted Jun 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Implements CPU blocks from RTL through physical design, balancing power, performance, and area while coordinating with micro-architects and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with micro-architects on memory subsystem definition, feasibility, pipeline stages, and area, frequency, performance, and power trade-offs.
- Drive RTL-to-GDS implementation through synthesis and place-and-route.
- Work with cross-functional teams to implement and validate physical design for timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS degree.
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Scripting experience in Perl or TCL.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with high-performance microprocessor architecture and logic design principles, including timing and power implications.
- Knowledge of low-power microarchitecture, deep sub-micron technologies and device physics, or synthesis and place-route tools.
Tools
Perl, TCL, RTL-to-GDS, synthesis, place-and-route
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