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. Do you want to join us in these pursuits? Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! 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 technical leader to drive architecture and RTL development of CPU front-end and/or out-of-order subsystem for our performant cores.
Description As a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: Micro-architecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration, through micro-architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification RTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for functional verification Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power
Minimum Qualifications - Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience with microprocessor architecture
- Experience with logic design principles with timing and power implications
- Experience in Verilog or VHDL
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging process
Preferred Qualifications - Expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution
- Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
- Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
- Experience in C or C++ programming
- Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python
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