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CPU Gate Level Synthesis Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Santa Clara, CA$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group seeks a CPU Gate Level Synthesis Engineer to assess and optimize design quality for high-performance, low-power CPUs. The role involves RTL to gate level synthesis, timing/power/area optimization, and collaboration with RTL, physical design, DFT, timing, and power teams to ensure synthesis-driven feedback and high-quality CPU designs.

Responsibilities

  • Early RTL health assessment to detect potential timing/gate-depth issues and collaborate with the RTL & physical design teams on solutions
  • Early stage power estimation and validation for new micro-architectural features
  • Enhancing synthesis flows for good correlation to post-route to ensure high fidelity of synthesis-based feedback
  • Work closely with DFT teams to ensure seamless integration of scan chain, ATPG, and MBIST into the synthesis flow
  • Partner with timing team to enable constraints generation at top levels
  • Debug and resolve timing, power, and area issues, ensuring efficient and scalable designs
  • Track and analyze PPA trends through project cycle

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience in digital logic design, RTL synthesis, and physical design
  • CPU implementation experience (ideal)
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Python) for automation and flow optimization
  • Strong problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment

Skills

Required:RTL synthesisdigital logic designDFTscripting (Tcl, Perl, Python)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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