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CPU Implementation Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is hiring CPU block-level implementation engineers to define memory subsystems, drive RTL-to-GDS flow, and implement/validate physical design focusing on timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.

Responsibilities

  • Work with Micro-architects to define memory subsystem, perform feasibility, make area, frequency, performance, power trade-offs and design and balance the pipeline stages
  • Help drive RTL-to-GDS flow through synthesis and place-and-route targeting ambitious targets for power, performance, and area
  • Design delivery. Work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS
  • Academic coursework or industry experience in VLSI and/or digital circuit design
  • Experience with scripting in Perl or TCL
  • Familiarity with high performance microprocessor architecture
  • Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
  • Understanding of low power microarchitecture and implementation techniques
  • Design exposure in deep sub-micron technologies and device physics
  • Experience using synthesis & place-route tools

Skills

Required:VLSI / digital circuit designScripting (Perl, TCL)
Nice to have:High-performance microprocessor architecture
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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