Apple

Graphics (GPU) Architectural Modeling Engineer

Apple$90K — $120K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with GPU APIs (Metal, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, or shading languages)
  • Excellent C/C++ programming skills
  • Understanding of key graphics rendering algorithms
  • Relevant coursework/projects in Computer Graphics or Computer Architecture
  • B.S. degree with no prior experience required

Responsibilities

  • Develop critical workloads for GPU validation including architecture, functionality, performance, and power
  • Collaborate with GPU hardware teams from design bring-up to post-silicon to identify and debug issues
  • Coordinate with GPU software teams during driver bring-up to address software issues swiftly
  • Create bit-accurate C/C++ models for hardware verification
  • Work alongside diverse teams in GPU development to ensure quality and efficiency

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on groundbreaking products containing Apple GPU
  • Collaborative work environment with global engineering teams
  • Impactful role in GPU development influencing millions of users
  • Access to advanced tools and techniques in GPU testing and validation
  • Career growth opportunities within a leading technology company
Full Job Description
Do you love problem solving and creating elegant solutions to highly complex technical challenges? As part of our Silicon Engineering team, you'll help develop and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient graphics processors! You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this team means you'll be responsible for designing and building workloads that ensure Apple devices are best-in-class. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking product containing an Apple GPU! In this highly impactful role, you will be responsible for graphics workloads used by teams involved in all stages of the GPU development lifecycle, from early feature specification through silicon bring-up and beyond. You will work with other teams at engineering sites around the globe towards the shared goal of ensuring that Apple GPUs meet the highest quality and efficiency standards. This job involves designing, developing, and maintaining workloads for GPU architectural validation and design verification.

Description

Join the team to play a central role in developing upcoming Apple GPUs. You will have the opportunity to help develop the tools and techniques used to ensure the GPU is functional, performant, and within the expected power envelope. In this role, you will work alongside many other teams involved in GPU development, including but not limited to Architecture, Modeling, Performance, Power, Design Verification, Silicon Validation, Software, and Manufacturing. Core responsibilities of this highly collaborative role are: - Developing critical workloads for GPU validation (architecture, functionality, performance, power). - Working with the GPU hardware teams from design bring-up through post-silicon, to identify and debug architectural, logic, and silicon issues. - Working with the GPU software teams during production driver bring-up to rapidly identify and resolve software issues. - Create bit-accurate C/C++ models for hardware verification.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience with GPU APIs like Metal, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, or shading languages.

Excellent C/C++ programming skills.

Knowledge of key graphics rendering algorithms.

Relevant coursework/projects in Computer Graphics or Computer Architecture.

B.S. degree and 0 years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise and knowledge of graphics rendering algorithms

Demonstrated knowledge of the software graphics pipeline and its application to computer graphics and / or ML.

Architectural validation and design verification knowledge

Knowledge of hardware architecture and/or graphics hardware

Ability to work well in a team and be productive under aggressive schedules

Excellent communications skills, self-motivated and well organized

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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