Apple · 3 months ago
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expApple is a company that thrives on innovation and extraordinary products. They are seeking an experienced engineer to drive architecture and RTL development of next generation CPUs, focusing on high-performance, low power microprocessors.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with microprocessor architecture
Experience with Verilog or VHDL
Preferred
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
Company
Apple
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10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
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