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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple
Posted 19 days ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Austin, TX, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Apple is seeking an experienced RTL Engineer with a minimum of 20 years of relevant industry experience to drive architecture and RTL development for next-generation CPUs.
  • The role involves microarchitecture development, RTL feature ownership, validation support, performance exploration, and design delivery.
  • Candidates should have a BS degree and experience with microprocessor architecture, as well as proficiency in Verilog or VHDL.
  • Preferred qualifications include knowledge of logic design principles, expertise in various CPU microarchitecture areas, and familiarity with interpretive languages like Perl or Python.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, reflective of the candidate's extensive experience and expertise in the field.
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hard-working people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products! The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products! Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products, including the iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac. We are looking for an experienced engineer to drive architecture and RTL development of next generation CPUs.

Description


As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification • RTL feature ownership – development, assessment and refinement of new RTL features to target power, performance, area and timing goals • Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification • Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance • Design delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

Minimum Qualifications


Minimum BS and 20+ years of relevant industry experience Experience with microprocessor architecture Experience with Verilog or VHDL

Preferred Qualifications


Knowledge of logic design principles Expertise with one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems Understanding of timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture Understanding of low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi



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