# Physical Design Engineer

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. Work with the logic design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle. Conduct floor planning, pin assignments, macro placement and evaluation of logic as well as iterating over placement in order to get the optimized placement. Conduct clock tree synthesis, optimization, routing and post-route optimization. Complete netlist to GDS2 implementation for partition(s) meeting schedule and design goals. Responsible for the setup, hold, transition and all static timing checks and complete Static Timing Analysis (STA). Run Static IR (Voltage drop) analysis and Dynamic IVD (voltage drop) analysis and other power related optimization and sign off. Responsible for formal ch

- **Id**: 3821480
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-physical-design-engineer-9>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T17:13:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T16:43:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4178
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **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**: 89
- **Open postings**: 812
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.222
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 216200
- **Max**: 324800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 324800

## Technologies

- **Ansys RedHawk** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Conformal** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Innovus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys PrimeTime** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T17:23:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 100
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 1
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:1, wave, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 324800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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