Power Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple Inc. is hiring a Power Engineer in Cupertino, California, and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. The role researches new low-power methods and power-intent verification, reviews design flows and methodologies to identify power-reduction opportunities, and prototypes designs in RTL and circuits to demonstrate new low-power techniques. It synthesizes and validates low-power designs for functionality, reliability, and testability; develops software and validation utilities to enable broad adoption and verify the robustness of new methodologies; and estimates power savings and system-level effects on power, performance, and area. The engineer also designs and simulates energy-efficient circuits, modifies and simulates standard-cell designs to reduce power consumption, and validates vendor CAD tools and features that support power minimization. The position is 40 hours per week.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Experience and/or education utilizing Low Power ASIC design to explore and prototype novel low-power methods.
• Experience and/or education identifying opportunities to improve existing designs using Low Power ASIC design.
• Experience and/or education using Logic and RTL Design to prototype, synthesize, and verify designs with new low-power methods.
• Experience and/or education prototyping and simulating energy-efficient CMOS or mixed-signal circuits to implement design prototypes.
• Experience and/or education developing custom CAD tools and scripts to automate large-scale design modifications.
• Experience and/or education evaluating power and timing of circuits and systems using industry-standard EDA flows.
• Experience and/or education developing and maintaining automation scripts using Tcl, Python, or Perl to streamline design workflows, improve productivity, and support CAD tool integration.

Responsibilities

• Research new low-power methods and power-intent verification.
• Review current design flows and methodologies to identify opportunities for power reduction.
• Prototype test designs in RTL and circuits to demonstrate new low-power schemes.
• Synthesize and validate low-power designs for functionality, reliability, and testability.
• Develop software to automate design modifications for broad adoption of novel low-power methods.
• Develop validation utilities to prove the robustness of novel low-power methodologies.
• Estimate power savings and assess the system-level impact of new methodologies on power, performance, and area.
• Design and simulate novel energy-efficient circuits.
• Modify and simulate existing standard-cell designs to minimize power consumption.
• Validate vendor CAD tools and features that support power-minimization methods.

Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in discretionary employee stock programs, including restricted stock unit awards.
• Opportunity to purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, if voluntarily participating.
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing a career at Apple.
• The role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• The role might be eligible for relocation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time