GPU RTL Design Engineer - San Diego
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
Design and manufacture a high-performance, power-efficient GPU.
About the role
This role involves designing and manufacturing high-performance, power-efficient GPUs within the Silicon Technologies group. You will focus on developing power-efficient, high-performance 3D graphics processor micro-architectures for mobile devices and personal computers.
What you'll do
- Deliver high-quality, low-power graphics IP that meets performance, timing, and area goals.
- Explore design trade-offs while exercising rigorous design principles.
- Understand and contribute to micro-architectural specifications for best-in-class GPUs.
- Collaborate with architecture, validation, modeling, and physical design teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree.
- Strong background in GPU, CPU, or SIMD architectures.
- Logic design, with expert knowledge of low-power techniques and timing optimizations.
- Expert knowledge in System Verilog HDL.
- Ability to drive bring up and debug of complex designs.
- Detailed understanding of synthesis tools, timing analysis, floor planning, and the PNR flow.
- Experience in hardware performance analysis.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Perl.
Nice to have
- Experience designing GPU Schedulers, Execution Units, Texture/Pixel Units, or Caches.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 62-day median for Digital/RTL Design roles.
Digital/RTL Design · RTL Design
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Open roles in category
943
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$184k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (943 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 23 | 943 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 75 | 3066 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 28 d | 62 d (−34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 144 open roles · median 55 d
- AMD · 62 open roles · median 63 d
- Synopsys · 56 open roles · median 19 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 52 open roles · median 69 d
- NVIDIA · 48 open roles · median 46 d
- Analog Devices · 39 open roles · median 75 d
How we counted: 943 open Digital/RTL Design (RTL Design) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.