Apple
CPU Physical Design Methodology and Optimization Engineer
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Develop and optimize physical-design methodology and flows for CPU designs, improving power, performance, and area (PPA) in collaboration with CPU and cross-functional teams.
What you'll do
- Engineer flows and algorithms with CPU, CAD, and design teams to improve PPA.
- Analyze design partitions to identify optimization opportunities and develop physical-design flows for CPU performance and efficiency.
- Collaborate with STA, library, technology, and post-silicon teams on physical-design optimization.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience in digital circuits, timing and power concepts, and logic design.
- Experience with TCL or Perl.
Nice to have
- Strong fundamentals in high-performance and low-power physical-design techniques; experience with industry-standard synthesis, PnR, and STA tools.
- Proficiency in Python, TCL, or Perl; familiarity with deep sub-micron challenges and extracting PPA metrics during physical design.
Pay
USD $184,700 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
TCL, Perl, Python, PnR, STA
AI focus
Contribute to applying machine-learning techniques in the silicon design space.
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