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 United States. The role focuses on reducing CPU power through micro-architecture and circuit ideas, analyzing and budgeting CPU power across use cases, and identifying power reduction opportunities with micro-architects and physical designers. The engineer will model and measure power before and after silicon across current and future CPU designs, collaborate with software and platform teams to improve CPU power efficiency and power-management feature usage, and drive power-management feature definition and silicon tuning. 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 in high-performance central processing unit (CPU) architecture.
• Experience and/or education applying logic design principles, including timing and power implications.
• Experience and/or education using C/C++ programming.
• Experience and/or education using a scripting language such as Python, Perl, or TCL for data analysis and automation.
• Experience and/or education in CMOS design and analysis.
• Experience and/or education with the VLSI design flow, including RTL design, design verification, synthesis, and place-and-route.
• Experience and/or education using lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, to take accurate, high-quality measurements.
• Experience and/or education using assembly language to compose customized, targeted test vectors.

Responsibilities

• Generate and drive new micro-architecture and/or circuit ideas to reduce CPU power.
• Drive CPU power budgeting, measurements, and analysis for several use cases.
• Work with micro-architects and physical designers to study power reduction opportunities.
• Conduct pre- and post-silicon power modeling and measurement across use cases on current and future CPU designs.
• Work with software and platform teams to optimize CPU power efficiency and usage of power-management features.
• Drive power-management feature definition and silicon tuning.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing a career at Apple.
• Opportunity to participate in discretionary employee stock programs, including restricted stock unit awards and discounted stock purchases through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, subject to eligibility and program terms.
• 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