CPU Implementation Feasibility Engineer

CPU Implementation Feasibility Engineer

**Beaverton, Oregon, United States**

**Hardware**

**Summary**

Posted: **Jul 21, 2025**

Role Number: **200613452**

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Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is hiring hardworking engineers for CPU implementation feasibility.

**Description**

As an Apple soft-IP CPU Implementation Feasibility Engineer, you will be working for RTL feasibility and PD feasibility including tech/CAD work and PD methodology work. You will be responsible to provide technical guidance to FE/BE designs of other IPs. Responsibilities also include but are not limited to:

• Making area/frequency/performance/power trade-offs
• Driving RTL-to-GDS flow through synthesis/place-and-route with ambitious goals for power, performance, and area
• Working with cross-functional engineering teams to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, power, testability, and reliability
• Performing different floorplanning experiments to understand the microarchitectural feasibility for achieving high targets for performance, power and area
• Performing different feasibility experiments for RTL innovations and improvements that drive the next generation high performance chips
• Working on PD methodology customized for CPU architecture
• Driving discussions with FE/BE designers in other IPs

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

+ Experience with synthesis, PnR and clock flow, and PPA optimizations

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ The ideal candidate will have implementation experience on high-performance CPU designs

+ Deep knowledge of CPU microarchitecture including common critical loops for timing and understanding of low power microarchitecture and implementation techniques for CPUs

+ Understanding of static timing and critical path closure techniques

+ Experience with Power analysis tools

+ Understanding on technology, library, and macro design

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