Circuit Design Engineer - Library/Process Monitor
Apple· Consumer Technology· Aug 5, 2026 · 3mo agoPosted 83 days ago
Santa Clara, California, United States
In office
Full-time
Mid
$150K–$278K
3+ years exp
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Job description
Imagine yourself at the center of our cutting-edge processor design in deep submicron technologies, and on standard cell library designs. You will drive concepts of transistor level circuit design, modeling and performance analysis, collaborating with all fields, playing a strategic role of getting functional products to millions of customers quickly. You will have the opportunity to integrate and come up with new ideas, as well as work with a team of hardworking engineers.
As a Circuit Design Engineer for the custom circuits team, you will perform the following:
• Work on library architecture discussion & optimization effort to improve overall Library PPA.
• Drive layout optimization effort by identifying & reducing parasitics to push circuit PPA.
• Work on Library PPA for different technology, architecture, PDK releases.
• Develop standard cell circuits that push design PPA.
• Work on PNR block to design process monitor IP, validate other Ips in testchips
• Engage with CPU, SOC and GPU teams on physical design requirements.
Bachelor's Degree + minimum of 3 years of experience
Experience in Circuit design of high-performance flip flops, level shifters, retention flops and other complex circuits is a plus.
Experience in RTL2GDSII flow and/or Static Timing Analysis (STA) is a strong plus.
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- Platform
- apple
- Effort
- medium