CPU Power Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted: 16 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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The CPU Power Engineer joins the CPU team to focus on power modeling, reduction, and correlating pre-silicon expectations with post-silicon measurements. In this role, you will generate ideas in micro-architecture and circuits to reduce power, drive budgeting and analysis for various use cases, and collaborate with micro-architects and physical designers to identify optimization opportunities. You will also work with software and platform teams to define power management features and perform silicon tuning. The ideal candidate possesses broad knowledge of VLSI design, manufacturing, circuit analysis, and logic design principles while understanding high-performance CPU architecture trade-offs. Required technical skills include strong CMOS design and analysis capabilities, solid programming and Python scripting experience, and hands-on lab experience characterizing power management features to ensure efficient performance across current and future CPU designs.

Skills

VLSI Design Circuit Analysis Logic Design Python CMOS CPU Architecture Power Modeling Power Management Micro-architecture

What you'll do

Generate and drive new micro-architecture and circuit ideas to reduce CPU power.
Manage budgeting, measurements, and analysis of CPU power across various use cases.
Perform pre-silicon modeling and post-silicon measurement for current and future CPU designs.
Collaborate with software and platform teams to optimize power management features and efficiency.
Define power management features and perform silicon tuning.
Create early power models to drive architectural trade-offs.

What we're looking for

Minimum BS degree and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
Broad knowledge related to VLSI design, manufacturing, circuit analysis, and logic design (preferred).
Familiarity with high performance CPU architecture and power performance trade-offs (preferred).
Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications (preferred).
Solid programming and python scripting experience (preferred).
Strong CMOS design and analysis skills (preferred).
Strong hands on lab experience characterizing and productizing power management features (preferred).

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