Apple

CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field; master's preferred
  • 10+ years of industry experience in microprocessor design
  • Proficiency in Verilog or VHDL for RTL development
  • Deep understanding of logic design principles
  • Expertise in instruction fetch, decode, or execution techniques
  • Knowledge of timing, power, and area tradeoffs in CPU design
  • Familiarity with Perl or Python for scripting

Responsibilities

  • Develop high-level architectural specifications for microprocessors
  • Own and refine RTL features to meet performance goals
  • Support test bench development for functional validation
  • Explore and validate high-performance strategies in RTL design
  • Collaborate with multifunctional teams for design and validation insights

Benefits

  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology in microprocessor design
  • Work alongside top-tier engineers and industry experts
  • Opportunity to contribute to products impacting millions
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Access to extensive resources for professional growth
Full Job Description
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.

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 BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience Experience with microprocessor architecture Experience with Verilog or VHDL

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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$63.9 billion
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1976
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$294.1 billion
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