CPU chip Physical Integration Engineer
Listed on 2026-07-20
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Test Engineer
CPU Full-chip Physical Integration 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 Full Chip Integration Engineer, you will be participating in the physical design, integration, and verification of high performance, low power processor development.
- Full chip floorplan, area optimizations, block partitioning and pin placements
- Own chip level place and route (PnR), final CPU layout database construction and verification (PDV)
- Develop and validate Power Grid, including routability analysis
- Drive custom layout integration, block and full-chip level EM/IR, electrical verification/analysis as well as formal verification
- Work with the implementation/CAD teams during the entire chip design cycle to drive signoff closure for tapeout
- Work with the SOC team to meet IP technical and delivery requirements
- Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies and flow development for chip integration and analysis
- Scripting to automate tasks and improve debug efficiency
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