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SoC Power Modeling Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Cupertino, CA / Multiple locations)$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineer role in Silicon Engineering focused on modeling power dissipation, power delivery, and voltage-frequency operating points for IPs within Apple SoCs. Collaboration across architecture, design, thermals, PMIC, system design, lab, silicon characterization/validation and technology teams to correlate models with HW data and optimize power efficiency in mobile SoCs.

Responsibilities

  • Modeling power dissipation and power delivery
  • Establishing voltages for DVFM states of IPs, including Neural Engines, CPUs, Graphics, compute (AI/ML) accelerators, media IPs, caches and fabric
  • Modeling power dissipation for customer use-cases
  • Interacting with the Technology team, Silicon Validation, and Product Engineering teams to establish voltage-frequency design points pre- and post- silicon
  • Working with the power lab and test teams to correlate models to HW data

Qualifications

  • A minimum of a bachelor's degree in relevant field and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience
  • 3+ years relevant experience, programming skills and an understanding of low-power digital design and power fundamentals
  • Understanding of SOC power modeling and current demand
  • Understanding of electrical properties of on-die PDN, power gating, package and system power delivery
  • Skills in scripting, data analysis and experience with EDA tools
  • Understanding of VLSI design flow and CMOS technology
  • Extensive background in EE
  • Ability to understand and model thermal control loops and throttling mechanisms
  • Familiarity with physical design tools for power optimization
  • Great teammate and excellent communication skills

Skills

Required:Power modeling and analysisVoltage-frequency design pointsScripting and data analysisCMOS/VLSI fundamentals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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