Apple
CPU Power Engineer
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Jan 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Develops CPU power models and reductions, correlates pre-silicon predictions with post-silicon measurements, and optimizes power efficiency across CPU designs and use cases.
What you'll do
- Generate and drive micro-architecture and/or circuit ideas to reduce CPU power; create early power models to inform architectural tradeoffs.
- Budget, measure, model, and analyze CPU power across use cases on current and future designs.
- Collaborate with design, software, and platform teams to optimize power efficiency, define power-management features, and tune silicon.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Broad knowledge of VLSI design, manufacturing, circuit analysis, and logic design; familiarity with high-performance CPU architecture and power-performance trade-offs.
- Solid programming and Python scripting experience; strong CMOS design and analysis skills; hands-on lab experience characterizing and productizing power-management features.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Python
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