Apple
CPU Implementation Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Apr 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Implements CPU blocks from RTL through physical design, collaborating on memory subsystem architecture and optimizing power, performance, and area.
What you'll do
- Work with micro-architects on memory subsystem feasibility, trade-offs, and pipeline-stage design and balance.
- Drive RTL-to-GDS synthesis and place-and-route to meet power, performance, and area targets.
- Coordinate physical design implementation and validation for timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
What they ask for
- Bachelor of Science degree.
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience scripting in Perl or TCL.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with high-performance microprocessor architecture, logic design, and 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
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