Apple
CPU Implementation Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Apr 13, 2026
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Implements CPU blocks, driving RTL-to-GDS design and validating physical design for power, performance, area, timing, reliability, and testability.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with micro-architects on memory subsystem definition, feasibility, trade-offs, and pipeline-stage design and balance.
- Drive RTL-to-GDS flow through synthesis and place-and-route.
- Work with cross-functional engineering teams to implement and validate physical design.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
- Academic coursework or industry experience in VLSI and/or digital circuit design.
- Experience scripting 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 experience using synthesis & place-route tools.
Tools
Perl, TCL, RTL-to-GDS
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