Apple
CPU Power Engineer
$129K–$195K
Beaverton, Oregon +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- Beaverton, Oregon
Santa Clara, California - Education
- Minimum BS required.
About the job
Analyze and project CPU power across microarchitecture, RTL, physical design, and technology, identifying opportunities to recover power in high-performance designs.
What you'll do
- Analyze power impact of new microarchitectural features and generate power estimates across the project lifecycle.
- Analyze power contributions and identify recovery opportunities in physical implementation and RTL.
- Create and refine power projections that account for convergence and implementation costs.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS required.
- Scripting experience in Perl/Python and TCL.
Nice to have
- Broad knowledge of micro-architecture, physical implementation, auto place and route tools, STA, spice, logic design, and device physics; knowledge of logic design principles and timing and power implications for high-performance, high-frequency designs; CMOS circuit design and analysis skills.
- Experience with PrimePower and PowerArtist; academic or industry experience with CPU architecture and implementation.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 USD base salary
Tools
Perl, Python, TCL, PrimePower, PowerArtist
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