Full-Time
SoC Physical Design Engineer
Place and Route
Apple
10,001+ employees
Designs and sells hardware and software
No salary listed
Beaverton, OR, USA
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- A minimum Bachelor of Science degree and three or more years of relevant industry experience.
- Work with the logic design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle.
- Complete netlist-to-GDS2 implementation for partitions while meeting schedule and design goals.
- Perform timing, physical, and electrical verification and drive signoff closure for the partitions.
- Resolve and improve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution.
- Experience with partition-level place-and-route implementation, including floorplanning, clock and power distribution, timing closure, physical verification, and electrical verification.
- Experience with physical design construction and analysis flows and methodologies.
- Ability to adhere to stringent schedule and die-size requirements.
- Experience with large system-on-chip designs exceeding 20 million gates and frequencies above 1 gigahertz.
- Experience with sub-10-nanometer technology nodes.
- Experience with industry-standard tools and understanding of their capabilities and underlying algorithms.
- Strong communication skills.
Apple designs, manufactures, and sells hardware and software across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, plus services like the App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, and Apple Pay. The products work together through an integrated ecosystem where devices run Apple’s own operating systems and sync data via iCloud, delivering a seamless user experience. It differentiates itself by controlling both hardware and software end-to-end, maintaining a unified design, and expanding services and spatial computing. Its goal is to provide a cohesive, high-quality experience across devices while growing services revenue and expanding its ecosystem.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cupertino, California
Founded
1976
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Apple's Q3 2026 revenue rose 16% to $109.4 billion, led by iPhone growth.
- Services revenue hit $30.7 billion in Q3 2026, a June-quarter record.
- Apple released $17.1 billion from Irish escrow after the EU tax ruling.
What critics are saying
- Apple cut over 200 jobs on August 21, 2026, across Vision Pro, Siri, and engineering.
- Bloomberg says Vision Pro slips toward late 2028 while Meta's smart glasses pull ahead.
- Apple's September 2026 guidance of 9%-11% growth trails consensus, hit by supply constraints.
What makes Apple unique
- Apple's Q3 2026 installed base hit an all-time high across major products.
- Apple controls silicon, software, hardware, and retail, narrowing rivals' advantage windows.
- Apple's 2027 roadmap spans smart glasses, camera AirPods, and a foldable iPhone.
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↓ -5%Apple has disclosed its profits and tax payments across individual EU countries for the first time under new transparency rules. The tech giant reported $17.1 billion in income tax paid in Ireland for the financial year ending September 2025, reflecting funds released from an escrow account following a European Court of Justice ruling. In September 2024, Apple lost a legal battle with the European Commission over Irish tax advantages, resulting in a €13 billion ($15.2 billion) back taxes order plus interest. In Germany, Apple recorded pre-tax profit of around $209 million and paid $153.5 million in income tax. Its German operations generated $2.72 billion in revenue and employed 4,089 people. Under EU rules, multinational companies with global annual revenue exceeding €750 million must publicly disclose income tax information for individual countries.
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a letter on 10 August arguing that artificial intelligence should be spread broadly rather than controlled by a handful of companies or governments. Meta announced it will resume releasing open-source AI models and released the open-weight Muse Glimmer model, a 30-billion-parameter system designed to run on a single consumer GPU. Meanwhile, Apple has been testing memory chips from China's CXMT for use in iPhones and MacBooks, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move aims to ease memory supply constraints that have forced Apple to raise prices globally. CXMT is now valued at $520 billion. Meta's strategy could attract developers, though monetisation remains unclear. Apple faces political risks from any Chinese supplier arrangement.
Apple is cutting jobs in its digital assistant and Vision Pro headset divisions as it refocuses on new devices and artificial intelligence. The iPhone maker is reducing staff across teams working on Siri and Vision Pro immersive video and gaming functions. The restructuring marks a strategic shift for Apple as it redirects resources toward emerging technologies. The cuts affect multiple teams involved in developing experiences for the Vision Pro, Apple's mixed reality headset launched last year. The move comes as Apple intensifies efforts to compete in the artificial intelligence space whilst streamlining operations across its product portfolio.
Apple paid Ireland $17 billion in taxes last year, representing 40% of its $43 billion worldwide corporate income tax bill, according to the Financial Times. The figure includes €13 billion in back taxes ordered by the EU's top court in 2024, after ruling Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid resulting in an effective tax rate below 1%. A quarter of Apple's global pre-tax profits in the year to September 2025 were booked through Irish entities employing just 3% of its workforce. This equates to $6 million of pre-tax profit per employee in Ireland, compared with $51,000 per employee in Germany. The disclosure comes under new EU rules requiring large companies to report revenue, profit and tax by jurisdiction. Apple employs 5,575 people in Ireland and 4,089 in Germany, where it paid $153 million in taxes.
Apple has reportedly laid off approximately 60 employees working on virtual reality development, according to Apple Insider. The cuts affected workers across Apple's Vision Group and other VR-related positions, signalling a pullback from the Vision Pro headset. The $3,499 Vision Pro has struggled to gain mainstream traction since launching in February 2024. Its high price, heavy design, and limited developer support have remained significant adoption barriers. Sales estimates suggest Apple has sold only a fraction of units needed to establish it as a mainstream product. The layoffs indicate Apple may be shifting focus towards smart glasses and lighter-weight augmented reality devices. Meta Platforms has built an early lead in smart glasses through its Ray-Ban Meta lineup, selling millions of pairs. Apple shares declined 1.8% on Thursday.