Apple's Silicon Engineering Group is seeking a dedicated CPU Gate Level Synthesis Engineer to join their industry-leading CPU design team. This role focuses on assessing and optimizing design quality for high-performance, low-power digital designs. The engineer will work in a multi-functional capacity to ensure that CPUs meet performance, power, and area standards. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to implement synthesis methodologies and optimize designs.

• Minimum BS degree and 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience in digital logic design, RTL synthesis, and physical design
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as TCL, Perl, and Python for automation and flow optimization
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment
• Ideal candidates should possess CPU implementation experience

• Conduct early RTL health assessments to detect potential timing and gate-depth issues.
• Collaborate with RTL and physical design teams to explore solutions for identified issues.
• Perform early stage power estimation and validation for new micro-architectural features.
• Enhance synthesis flows to ensure good correlation to post-route for high fidelity feedback.
• Work closely with DFT teams to integrate scan chain, ATPG, and MBIST into the synthesis flow.
• Partner with the timing team to enable constraints generation at top levels.
• Debug and resolve timing, power, and area issues to ensure efficient and scalable designs.
• Track and analyze PPA trends throughout the project cycle.

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.