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GPU Physical Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (London, England, United Kingdom), Hybrid (Cambridge, England, United Kingdom)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role within Apple’s Silicon Technologies group focused on designing and manufacturing next-generation GPUs with high performance and power efficiency, from RTL to tape-out, collaborating with Front-End teams and leading physical design efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the Front-End team to understand chip architecture and drive physical aspects early in design cycle.
  • Drive best in class Physical Design construction and optimization recipes for performance, power, and Area (PPA).
  • Collaborate to drive methodologies and “best known methods” to streamline PD work, come up with guidelines and checklists, drive execution and track progress.
  • Be focal point for place and route drive the work among place and route engineers, set goals and breakthroughs, plan short and long-term work, understand dependencies between different domains like top, STA, block Place & Route.
  • Manage and resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions and drive execution.
  • Work with Front-End teams to understand the design architecture to drive optimal floorplanning and physical implementation through early RTL feedback.
  • Use design knowledge and state-of-the-art physical construction and optimization flow to push performance, power, and Area (PPA) of GPU designs.
  • Experience with multi-voltage, power gated and power retention will be an advantage.
  • Your practical knowledge with hierarchical design approach, top-down design, budgeting, timing and physical convergence will be an asset.
  • Showcase your experience on integrating IP from both internal and external vendors and be able to specify and drive IP requirements in the physical domain.
  • Your depth of expertise with large GPU designs (>20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHz utilizing state-of-the-art technologies will serve you well.
  • From a CAD tool perspective, experience crafting Floor-planning tools, P&R flows, global timing verification and Physical Design Verification Flows is required.
  • Familiar with various process-related design issues including Design for Yield and Manufacturability, multi Vt strategies and thermal management.

Qualifications

  • BSc/MSEE/M Eng/BEng or equivalent is required
  • We value proven ability in all aspects of ASIC implementation including Synthesis, DFT insertion, Floorplanning, Clock and Power distribution, Place & Route and all aspects of timing, electrical and physical signoff.

Skills

Required:Chip architecture understandingFloorplanningPlace & Route (P&R)Timing analysis and signoffIP integrationCAD tools for physical design
Nice to have:Power, multi-voltage design
Last updated Aug 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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