Apple logo

Physical Design Engineer

Apple

Austin, TXJobSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.

You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.

Watch jobs like this.

Don't just apply. Show up ready.

Olive works from this exact posting.

At a glance

Compensation
No compensation found
Location
Austin, TX
Work Authorization
Not specified

Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.

Job overview

Apple seeks a Physical Design Engineer to contribute to all phases of high-performance PHY physical design, from RTL through final GDSII delivery. The engineer will work with architecture, CAD, timing, and logic design teams on PHY design efforts. The role requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and at least 10 years of relevant industry experience or equivalent; preferred qualifications include deep PHY or SoC design experience and expertise in physical design methods and tools.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

PHY DesignSoC DesignPhysically Aware SynthesisFloor PlanningPlace and RoutePower Grid DesignClock Specification DevelopmentPhysical ConstructionPhysical IntegrationPhysical VerificationSoC ArchitectureVerilogHDLPhysical Design ToolsSynthesis ToolsPerlTclExtractionSTALVS/DRC Debugging

Qualifications

Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering or Equivalent10 Years Relevant Industry Experience

Full job description

Role Number: 200693415-0240

Summary

At Apple we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? Do you like changing the game? We have an opportunity for a forward-thinking and unusually hardworking Physical Design Engineer. As a member of our wide-ranging group, you will have the rare and great opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every single day. In this role, we will be at the center of a PHY design effort working with architecture, CAD, timing and logic design teams, with a critical impact on delivering outstanding PHY designs. You will be required to do physical designs of outstanding PHY design.

Description

As a Physical Design engineer you will contribute to all phases of physical design of high performance PHY design from RTL to delivery of our final GDSII.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

  • The ideal candidate will have deep design experience in high PHY and/or SOC designs.

  • Deep Knowledge about industry standards and practices in Physical Design, including Physically aware synthesis, Floor-planning, and Place & Route.

  • Experience in developing and implementing Power-grid and Clock specifications.

  • Strong understanding of all aspects of Physical construction, Integration and Physical Verification.

  • Shown Knowledge of Basic SoC Architecture and HDL languages like Verilog to be able with logic design team for timing fixes Power user of industry standard Physical Design & Synthesis tools.

  • Deep Understanding of scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl, solid understanding of Extraction and STA methodology and tools.

  • Deep Understanding of Physical Design Verification methodology to debug LVS/DRC issues at chip/block level.

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 postingNot listed
  • Texas median$131–204K/yr171 salary ranges
  • US median$60–68/hr76 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 332 open Hardware Engineer jobs in Texas and 3,060 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 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.

Prepare for this role

You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.