Graphics Power Analysis & Optimization Engineer
Apple· Hardware
Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)Full-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Role within Apple’s Silicon Technologies group focused on power activity support for GPU development, including power estimation, RTL/gate-level power analysis, and power optimization across architectures and flows.
Responsibilities
- Create early power estimation, power targets and perform what-if analysis at architectural evaluation stage.
- Support RTL and gate-level power rollup and analysis.
- Analyze various GPU workloads to identify power reduction opportunities.
- Evaluate and implement power optimizations in both RTL and gates.
- Identify the best power sign-off tests to improve power analysis coverage.
- Develop flows & heuristics to accelerate power triage on large power data sets.
Qualifications
- BS degree and minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience with low power microarchitecture and implementation.
- Experience with scripting in Python.
- Experience with PowerArtist and/or PTPX.
- Experience in product level power budgeting and projection.
- Experience in writing, simulating and debugging RTL designs.
- Experience in low power ASIC design and implementation techniques.
- Experience in data mining applications to power modeling & triage.
- Experience in power use-case definition and analysis.
- Experience in post-silicon power correlation.
- Experience in power management techniques.
- Excellent communication skills, self-motivated and well organized.
Skills
Required:Power estimationRTL and gate-level power analysisGPU power optimizationPython scripting
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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