Senior CPU Power Engineer: Power Budgeting & RTL Insight

Apple Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a CPU Power Engineer to join our team focused on power budgeting, analysis, and recovery opportunities at the cross-section of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high performance designs.

You will analyze and estimate power impact of new micro-architectural features, generate power rollups through lifecycle, identify recovery opportunities, and refine projection processes.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Perl/Python scripting

TCL scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PrimePower

PowerArtist

Job description

Apple is seeking a CPU Power Engineer to join our team focused on power budgeting, analysis, and recovery opportunities at the cross-section of micro-architecture, RTL, physical design, and technology in high performance designs.

You will analyze and estimate power impact of new micro-architectural features, generate power rollups through lifecycle, identify recovery opportunities, and refine projection processes.