Apple
GPU Top Level Physical Design Engineer
$150K–$278K
Austin, Texas +1 · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 3 years of relevant experience; no alternative stated.
- Education
- BS; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
About the job
Implements GPU chip physical design from netlist to tapeout, leading top-level place-and-route integration and coordinating physical design across teams.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with front-end engineering to understand RTL and address physical design early in the design cycle.
- Develop physical design methodologies, guidelines, and checklists; drive execution and monitor progress.
- Lead top-level place-and-route integration and communicate physical design needs across teams.
What they ask for
- BS degree and relevant experience.
- ASIC integration experience in at least one of: floorplanning, clock and power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning, or hard IP integration.
- Experience with hierarchical or top-down design, budgeting, timing, or physical convergence.
- Experience with floorplanning tools, P&R flows, global timing verification, and physical design verification flows.
Nice to have
- Experience integrating internal and external IP and specifying physical-domain IP requirements.
- Experience with multiple voltage and clock domains, ESD solutions, mixed-signal integration, large subsystems, or GPU architecture.
Pay
USD $150,400 to $277,600 base salary
Tools
Floorplanning tools, P&R flows
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