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Apple's Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products, including the i Phone, i Pad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac. We are looking for an experienced engineer to drive architecture and RTL development of CPU integer, floating-point, and/or load/store execution for our performant cores.

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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

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in one or more of the following areas: out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems

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

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

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Client-provided location(s): Beaverton, OR

Job ID: apple-200628491-0505_rxr-660

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-07T19:12:54
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