Apple
Physical Design Engineer
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience or equivalent.
- Education
- Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering.
About the job
Performs end-to-end physical design of high-performance PHYs, from RTL through final GDSII delivery, coordinating with architecture, CAD, timing, and logic design teams.
What you'll do
- Create timing constraints, chip floorplans, and power-grid and clock-network guidelines.
- Place and route blocks; close designs against timing, area, and power constraints, and implement ECOs to address violations.
- Run physical-design verification and support methodology, CAD, and chip-integration flow development.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Deep design experience in high PHY and/or SOC designs.
- Experience with physical design and verification methodologies, power-grid and clock specifications, scripting, extraction, and STA.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
RTL, GDSII, Verilog, Perl/Tcl, LVS/DRC, STA
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