Senior GPU Top Design Engineer

APPLE; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

APPLE is seeking a candidate for their GPU top design team in Cambridge, England. This role involves developing micro-architecture and RTL for critical top-level infrastructure IP, contributing to GPU-level assembly and design verification, and mentoring junior engineers. Applicants should have expertise in design including logic synthesis and proficiency in SystemVerilog/VHDL. The company promotes an inclusive environment and will accommodate applicants with disabilities.

Qualifications

• Expertise in design including logic synthesis.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work under aggressive schedules.

Responsibilities

• Develop micro-architecture for owned IP and system-level improvements.
• Contribute to GPU top-level assembly and integration.
• Debug and analyze top-level design issues.

Skills

Design including logic synthesis

SystemVerilog/VHDL

Problem-solving skills

Tools

Revision control systems

Scripting languages (Python/Ruby/Tcl)

Job description

Summary

Posted: 09 Feb 2026

Role Number: 200644753-1251

The Top Design team at the UK GPU Design Centre works on complex, large-scale GPU related projects. We partner with our graphics architecture, functional verification and physical design teams to deliver high quality graphics IP in order to meet performance, feature, timing, area and power goals.

Description

The GPU top design team develops micro-architecture and RTL for critical top-level infrastructure IP and drives micro-architectural improvements across the entire GPU through our holistic system-level perspective. We own complete IP blocks including interconnects, control logic, and clocking/reset distribution. Our unique position working across the full GPU scope enables us to identify optimization opportunities that span multiple units which means our micro-architecture work can influence outside of IP that we own when we identify better system-level solutions. We handle the complete design flow for our IP from concept through physical design handoff, while also contributing to GPU-level assembly and integration.

Responsibilities

• Micro-architecture development (for owned IP and system-level improvements)
• IP design and synthesis (owned blocks)
• Design clocking and reset distribution, perform CDC/RDC verification
• Contribute to GPU top-level assembly/integration
• Debug and analyse top-level design issues
• Prepare deliverables for physical design handoff
• Codeline management, supporting multiple products & chips
• Review RTL implementations and mentor junior engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise in design including logic synthesis
• Expertise in SystemVerilog/VHDL and proficiency in revision control systems
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work across team boundaries and be productive under aggressive schedules

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of computer architecture and physical design
• Experience with large-scale SoC or GPU design
• Experience of scripting languages (for example Python/Ruby/Tcl)

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.