CPU Power Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

15h

About The Position

At Apple, new ideas quickly become extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. The company seeks passionate and dedicated individuals to contribute to its innovative technologies and commitment to leaving the world better. This role is for a strong candidate to join the CPU team, focusing on power budgeting, analysis, and identifying recovery opportunities at the intersection of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high-performance designs, contributing to groundbreaking Apple products.

Requirements

• BS degree
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience

Nice To Haves

• Perl/Python and TCL scripting experience from industry usage
• Experience with CPU architecture and implementation
• Broad knowledge related to micro-architecture, physical implementation, auto place and route tools, STA, spice, logic design, and device physics
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications for high performance and high frequency designs
• CMOS circuit design and analysis skills
• Experience with industry standard power analysis tools like PrimePower and PowerArtist

Responsibilities

• Analyze and estimate the power impact of implementing new micro-architectural features
• Generate power rollups and projected estimates from initial to mature net lists through the lifecycle of a project
• Analyze power contributions to generate opportunities for recovery in physical implementation as well as RTL
• Create power projections factoring in expected cost of convergence and implementation and refine the process

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees