CPU Implementation Engineer
Listed on 2026-07-17
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer
CPU Implementation Engineer
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! Apple's Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is hiring hardworking engineers for CPU block-level implementation.
As a CPU Implementation Engineer, you will drive or participate in the following:
- Work with micro-architects to help define the micro-architecture and assist with design feasibility and power, performance, and area (PPA) trade-offs
- Drive RTL-to-GDS design convergence through microarchitecture and logic (RTL) optimizations using synthesis and place-and-route tools targeting ambitious goals for PPA
- Responsible for block-level design delivery along with closure of backend flows, electrical requirements, and improving silicon yield
- Work closely with internal CAD and PD methodology teams on industry-standard synthesis/PNR tool features and optimizations and their adoption in CPU design
- Work with x-functional top-level teams on the aspects of CPU floorplan, timing, power, reliability, and testability
- Work closely with custom IP teams to define and co-optimize memory macros, library standard cells to improve design PPA
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