CPU Power Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

74d

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hard-working people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products! The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products! We are looking for a strong candidate to join our CPU team focusing on power budgeting, analysis, and identification of recovery opportunities at the cross-section of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high performance designs.

Requirements

• 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 PowerArtistArray

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

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees