
Power Engineer
Cupertino, CAFull-time$150–225K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Apple seeks a Power Engineer to research and prototype low-power methods, verify power intent, and improve design flows. The role develops and validates low-power designs, circuits, software, and utilities, and assesses effects on system power, performance, and area. The position is available in Cupertino, California, and other unanticipated locations throughout the United States.
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Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200691459-0836
Summary
Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
Description
APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Research new low power methods and power intent verification. Review current design flows and methodologies to identify scope for power reduction. Prototype test designs in RTL and circuits to prove new low power schemes. Synthesize and validate low power designs for functionality, reliability and testability. Develop software to automate design modifications for a wide scale adoption of novel low power methods. Develop validation utilities to prove robustness of novel low power methodologies. Estimate power savings and assess impact of new methodologies on system level power, performance, area. Design and simulate novel energy efficient circuits. Modify and simulate existing standard cell designs to minimize power consumption. Validate new CAD tools and features from vendors supporting power minimization methods. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $150,400 - $225,300/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Minimum Qualifications
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Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
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Experience and/or education must include:
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Utilizing Low Power ASIC design to explore and prototype novel low power methods.
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Identifying scope for improvements in existing designs using Low Power ASIC design.
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Utilizing Logic and RTL Design for Prototyping, Synthesizing, and verifying designs with new low power methods.
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Prototyping and simulating energy efficient CMOS or mix-signal circuits to Implement design prototype.
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Developing custom CAD tools and scripts to automate large scale design modifications.
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Evaluating Power and timing analysis of circuits and systems using industry standard EDA flows.
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Utilizing design power intent and low power methodology to develop low power methods that are reliable and testable designs on silicon.
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Collaborating with physical design engineers to ensure optimal implementation of low power.
Preferred Qualifications
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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,060 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–225K/yr
- California median$145–214K/yr950 salary ranges
- US median$132–204K/yr2,272 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $188K, is 6% above the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,251 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 3,060 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (2,588 postings).
- Education
- 1,740 of the 3,060 open Hardware Engineer jobs (57%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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