Apple · 2 months ago
CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$181K/yr - $318K/yr
10+ years expApple is a company known for its innovative products and technologies, and they are seeking a CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer to join their Silicon Engineering Group. The role involves driving CPU multi-level cache subsystem architecture and RTL development for multi-processor systems, focusing on micro-architecture development, RTL ownership, verification, and design delivery.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Expertise in one or more of the following areas: coherence protocols and interconnects, high performance (low latency, high bandwidth) design techniques, memory subsystem queuing, scheduling, starvation and deadlock avoidance, SRAM design basics, multiple clock/power domains and power management strategies, prefetchers, replacement policies, debug capabilities, DFT strategies, error detection and correction
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
Benefits
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
Retirement benefits
A range of discounted products and free services
Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
Relocation
Company
Apple
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