Drimva

Apple

GPU RTL Design Engineer

$142K–$263K

San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 15, 2026

Experience
Minimum of 5 years of relevant industry experience.
Education
BS

About the job

Design power-efficient, high-performance GPU micro-architectures and deliver graphics IP that meets performance, timing, and area goals.

What you'll do

  • Develop GPU micro-architectures for low-power mobile devices and high-performance personal computers.
  • Explore design trade-offs and contribute to micro-architectural specifications.
  • Collaborate with architecture, validation, modeling, and physical design teams to bring up and debug designs.

What they ask for

  • BS degree.
  • Strong background in GPU, CPU, or SIMD architectures and logic design, including low-power techniques and timing optimizations.
  • Expert knowledge of System Verilog HDL.
  • Ability to bring up and debug complex designs; strong teamwork and communication, influence, and negotiation skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing GPU Schedulers, Execution Units, Texture/Pixel Units, or Caches.
  • Experience with synthesis tools, timing analysis, floor planning, PNR flow, hardware performance analysis, or scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Perl.

Pay

USD $142,300 to $263,300 base salary

Tools

System Verilog HDL, Python, Ruby, Perl

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)