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Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. As part of the Hardware Technology CAD team, you’ll help design our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient SoCs. You will work on world class CPU, GPU, Analog/Mixed Signal and SOC designs by developing flows, tools and methodologies for future Apple products! You will explore and enable new technology nodes, stdcells and tools for design teams. You will collaborate with design teams and tool vendors to improve PPA (Power, Performance, Area) and design productivity. You will use and leverage GenAI tools to develop GenAI applications to improve Design team productivity. You will actively work on developing internal methodologies using your understanding of CAD algorithms and ML. We are looking for passionate engineers to join our team. In this role, you will be impacting a wide range of chips used across Apple’s world-class products! ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 28, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Nov 1, 2026 - Last checked: Nov 1, 2026 - Listed for: 4 days - Location: Santa Clara, United States of America[Apply on Apple’s careers site →](https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200692170/physical-design-methodology-cad-engineer) ## Hiring at Apple - Open jobs: 6,319 - New in the last 7 days: After two weekly collections - Tracked since: Jul 10, 2026 [All Apple jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/) · [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) ## More jobs at Apple ### [ASIC Design Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/e3942eb7f181b87ce16c/) Santa Clara, United States of America ### [ASIC Design Engineer - Cache Controller](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/apple/jobs/93bdb9aa9ca8d9a88797/) Santa Clara, United States of America ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Physical Design CAD Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/c6f51a8f2a250a28e52f/) Microsoft · United States, Oregon, Hillsboro, California, Mountain View, North Carolina, Raleigh ### [Low Power Design/Methodology Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/qualcomm/jobs/bca7be857c43dba101a7/) Qualcomm · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico ### [GPU Design Implementation Methodology Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/qualcomm/jobs/4ac390304f02758f3cb2/) Qualcomm · San Diego, California, United States of America ### [Sr. Staff Physical Design CAD Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/advanced-micro-devices-amd/jobs/8c343186326b0756bb7f/) Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) · Austin, Texas ### [Senior Physical Design Methodology Engineer, PPA Improvement Technology Scaling](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/nvidia/jobs/8c7a4dc87b1f16d970a3/) NVIDIA · US, CA, Santa Clara +1 more OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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