CPU Microarchitecture & RTL Design Engineer

Apple Inc.; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Education reimbursement

Relocation

Bonuses or commissions

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an experienced CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer to drive architecture and RTL development for high‑performance cores used in Apple hardware products.

You will own micro-architecture specifications, refine RTL design, and support verification, finding power-performance trade-offs while collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. The role offers a strong path for innovation within Apple Silicon Engineering.

Qualifications

• Expertise in CPU microarchitecture and RTL design
• Experience with Verilog or VHDL and simulators
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and scripting in Python/Perl
• Knowledge of power, performance, area trade-offs in CPUs
• Experience with memory subsystem design and performance analysis
• Familiarity with high-performance processor architectures

Responsibilities

• Micro-architecture development from high-level exploration to detailed specs
• RTL ownership and refinement to meet timing, power and area goals
• Support verification with test benches, formal methods, and simulations
• Analyze and verify RTL performance against targets
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams for physical design delivery

Skills

Out-of-order execution

Instruction scheduling

Integer and FP execution

Load/store execution

Cache and memory subsystems

Low power microarchitecture

High-performance CPU techniques

C/C++ programming

Perl or Python

Verilog or VHDL

Simulators/waveform debugging

Job description

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an experienced CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer to drive architecture and RTL development for high‑performance cores used in Apple hardware products.

You will own micro-architecture specifications, refine RTL design, and support verification, finding power-performance trade-offs while collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. The role offers a strong path for innovation within Apple Silicon Engineering.