Performance Architect– Platform Architecture

Apple; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a highly motivated Performance Engineer to join their GPU Performance Modelling Team. This role involves collaborating with various teams to shape Apple's architecture and prototype new ideas for next-generation silicon products. Candidates must have deep expertise in computer architecture and experience in performance simulation.

The team is pivotal in getting high-performance products into the hands of millions, and the successful candidate will play a crucial role in refining and presenting architectural concepts.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in computer architecture and micro-architecture — CPU, GPU, SOC, or adjacent domains.
• Hands-on experience with performance and or power simulation environments.
• Skilled at analyzing and characterizing complex workloads.

Responsibilities

• Research and propose novel ideas that help shape Apple's platform direction.
• Prototype architectural and micro-architectural concepts in existing C++ performance models.
• Gather, analyze, and validate measured results to identify bottlenecks.

Skills

Deep expertise in computer architecture and micro-architecture

Hands-on experience with performance simulation environments

Skilled at analyzing complex workloads

Familiar with common data structures and algorithms

Working knowledge of C++ and Python

Strong communication skills

Job description

Summary

The hardest problems are the ones worth solving. We believe that meaningful progress comes from pushing past where it's easy to stop, and that a team with the right people and relentless drive can outperform even its own ambitions. We're looking for highly motivated, innovative engineers to join the GPU Performance Modelling Team, the group driving advanced exploration of Apple's next-generation GPU architectures and micro-architectures. It's a highly visible role at the heart of the chip design effort, working across every discipline involved, with a direct hand in getting high-performance products into the hands of millions of customers. This isn't easy work, but if you've been looking for a place where ambition and craft genuinely matter, you've found it.

Description

Every generation of Apple silicon raises the bar for what a GPU and SOC can do: more performance, more efficiency, in tighter power envelopes than the industry thought possible. As a Performance Engineer on this team, you'll help decide where that bar goes next. You'll join a group shaping the architecture of Apple's GPU and SOC from the ground up, researching the ideas that turn into the next leap forward. The work is deeply collaborative: you'll partner with teams across software and hardware engineering to pressure-test ideas, refine the promising ones, and plant the seeds for new ones. You'll dig into the workloads that matter, across both today's products and tomorrow's categories, to find the bottlenecks worth solving and the opportunities worth chasing.

In This Role, You Will

• Research and propose novel ideas that help shape Apple's platform direction
• Prototype architectural and micro-architectural concepts in our existing C++ performance models
• Gather, analyze, and validate measured and simulated results to identify bottlenecks and evaluate new ideas
• Present findings and recommendations to peers and leadership
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to turn ideas into shipped architecture

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep expertise in computer architecture and micro-architecture — CPU, GPU, SOC, or adjacent domains
• Hands-on experience with performance and or power simulation environments
• Skilled at analyzing and characterizing complex workloads

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with common data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Working knowledge of C++ and Python
• Comfortable working in uncertain environments and through ambiguity
• Strong communicator who can influence decisions and negotiate trade-offs

EEO Statement

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law.