Job Details

GPU Physical Design PPA Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Role Number: 200609387

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? As part of our Silicon Engineering group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processors! You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions!

As a member of the GPU Technology and PPA team, you will be responsible for the enablement of the latest technology nodes for all aspects of the implementation flow.

Description

In this role, you will be involved with enablement and bring-up of the latest technology nodes and projecting Performance, Power and Area for the next generation graphics chips. Your responsibilities include:

-Work closely with the Front-End , Physical Design and STA teams to drive methodology changes to improve performance, power and area for the next generation GPU designs.
-Work with the Apple custom design teams to analyze and drive standard cell and memory hard-IP offerings and recommend usage/methodology to the graphics FE/PD/STA teams.
-Work with power teams to analyze GPU power and make recommendations for power reduction across architecture and gate-level design.
-Analyze Freq/voltage choices and PPA tradeoffs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with TCL , Perl or Python scripting.

• Experience with industry standard physical design tools.

• BS +3 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of logic design principles, physical design, power and timing concepts.

• Knowledge of industry standard synthesis and STA tools.

• Knowledge of circuit layout and experience with spice tools.

• Experience with data analysis to draw meaningful conclusions from large amounts of data.

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