CPU Power Engineer

Beaverton Santa Clara Until 9/22/2026 10+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

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! We are looking for a strong candidate to join our CPU team focusing on power budgeting, analysis, and identification of recovery opportunities at the cross-section of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high performance designs.

Description

As a CPU Power Engineer, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Analyze and estimate the power impact of implementing new micro-architectural features
• Generate power rollups and projected estimates from initial to mature net lists through the lifecycle of a project
• Analyze power contributions to generate opportunities for recovery in physical implementation as well as RTL
• Create power projections factoring in expected cost of convergence and implementation and refine the process

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Scripting experience in Perl/Python and TCL
Academic or industry experience with CPU architecture and implementation

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have broad knowledge related to micro-architecture, physical implementation, auto place and route tools, STA, spice, logic design, and device physics
Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications for high performance and high frequency designs
CMOS circuit design and analysis skills
Experience with industry-standard power analysis tools like PrimePower and PowerArtist

About this role

Summary

Analyze power impact, generate estimates, identify recovery opportunities in CPU design.

Job title

CPU Power Engineer

Experience level

10+ years

Minimum experience

10+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Beaverton or Santa Clara; on-site preferred

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PerlPythonTCLCPU architecturepower analysis

Preferred skills

micro-architecturephysical implementationauto place and route toolsSTAspicelogic designdevice physicsPrimePowerPowerArtist

Specializations

power analysismicro-architectureRTLphysical designpower budgeting
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Beaverton, OR, USA

On-site City

Santa Clara, CA, USA

On-site City