Apple
CPU Implementation Feasibility Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Conduct feasibility experiments and guide RTL-to-GDS implementation for CPU and memory subsystem designs, balancing performance, power, and area.
What you'll do
- Run feasibility and floor-planning experiments to evaluate RTL and microarchitectural ideas.
- Make area, frequency, performance, and power trade-offs; drive synthesis and place-and-route.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement and validate physical design for timing, area, power, testability, and reliability.
What they ask for
- BS degree.
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience with VLSI implementation on high-performance designs.
Nice to have
- Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture and high-performance CPU implementation.
- Experience with critical-path closure, static timing analysis, power analysis, or LEC tools.
Tools
RTL, synthesis, place-and-route, RTL-to-GDS, Logical Equivalence checking (LEC) tools, Power analysis tools, Static Timing Analysis Tools
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