CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store

Apple; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, where your expertise will drive the development of high-performance microprocessors that power innovative products. In this role, you will engage in microarchitecture development, RTL ownership, and validation, collaborating with a multifunctional team to ensure optimal power, performance, and reliability. This dynamic environment fosters creativity and innovation, allowing you to make a significant impact on the next generation of groundbreaking technology. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of microprocessor design, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in CPU microarchitecture.
• Strong knowledge of Verilog and VHDL for RTL design.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and RTL development for CPU execution.
• Support test bench development and simulation for validation.

Skills

Microprocessor Architecture

Verilog

VHDL

Simulators

Waveform Debugging

Logic Design Principles

C Programming

C++ Programming

Perl

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Simulation Tools

Job description

CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Hardware

Summary

Posted: Oct 07, 2024

Role Number: 200571959

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. Do you want to join us in these pursuits? Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! Apple’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 to drive architecture and RTL development of CPU integer, floating-point, and/or load/store execution for our performant cores.

Description

As a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:

1. Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
2. RTL ownership – development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals
3. Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
4. Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance
5. Design delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
• Knowledge of microprocessor architecture
• Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
• Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

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

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