# Physical Design Engineer

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 Ph

- **Id**: 3839631
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-physical-design-engineer-21>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T21:21:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T09:56:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 829
- **Ghost share**: 0
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- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Perl** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T22:07:09Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 37; Filings 12m: 6350; Filings prev 12m: 6527; Green card filings 12m: 37

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- **Score**: 100
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
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- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:2, wave, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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