Apple is hiring a Junior RTL Power Optimisation Engineer in London. This is a graduate scheme in Software engineering, read from Apple’s own careers site and last confirmed on 12 September 2026.
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Apple's UK early careers hiring is concentrated in silicon, not in the software roles most people expect. The openings run through the UK GPU Design Centre and the Silicon Technologies group, and cover GPU physical design, RTL design, power optimisation and platform architecture, alongside security engineering in Cheltenham. The work is chip design: Verilog, ASIC implementation, floorplanning, clock and power distribution, and timing signoff.
Apple publish no closing date on any UK posting, so nothing on their board tells you how long a role will stay open. Their GPU internship adverts are the exception and state a timetable outright. Titles are the thing to search on: Apple mark entry level roles either "Early Career" or "Internship" in the title itself, and their internal student tag is not exposed as a filter on the public site.
The GPU internship adverts state it in their own words: "Applications will close by mid-October. Initial interviews will take place in October, with final round interviews in November." The same adverts give start dates of "Winter 2026 or Spring / Summer 2027", so this is not a single summer cohort.
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Read directly from Apple’s own careers site, requisition 200608562-2114. First seen on 30 August 2026 and last confirmed on 12 September 2026. The apply link goes to that exact application, never to a careers homepage.