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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/4/2026
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. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products!\\n\\nApple'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 who can drive CPU multi-level cache subsystem architecture and RTL development for multi-processor systems.

As a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will participate in the following:\n\n Micro-architecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration, through micro-architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification\n RTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals\n Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for formal verification\n Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance\n 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 BS\nExperience with at least one of the following languages: Verilog or VHDL

Expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction; instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution; integer and floating point execution; load/store execution; cache and memory subsystems; machine-learning algorithms and mapping to hardware; or power and thermal management\nUnderstanding of low power microarchitecture techniques\nUnderstanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture\nExperience in C or C programming\nExperience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

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