CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Summary

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! nnApple’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:nn

• Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specificationn
• RTL feature ownership – development, assessment and refinement of new RTL features to target power, performance, area and timing goalsn
• Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verificationn
• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performancen
• 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 3+ years of relevant industry experiencenExperience with microprocessor architecturenExperience with Verilog or VHDL

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of logic design principlesnExpertise 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 nUnderstanding of timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecturenUnderstanding of low power and high performance microarchitecture techniquesnExperience using an interpretive language such as Perl or PythonnExperience with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi

Pay & Benefits

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