CPU Performance Architect: Micro-Architecture Innovator

Apple Inc.; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock programs

Education reimbursement

Medical and dental coverage

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a CPU Performance Architect focused on CPU micro-architecture. You will work with a team driving next-generation iPhone, iPad, and Mac CPUs, exploring novel ideas, collecting data, and validating concepts through modeling and simulator work.

You will analyze workloads, partner with design and RTL teams, and help optimize latency, pipelines, and power while advancing the simulation environment for data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture.
• Experience conceiving novel performance ideas using micro-architecture knowledge and performance bottleneck analysis on relevant workloads.
• Experience working with design and implementation teams to iterate on ideas to solve timing and power efficiency challenges and fit them into system constraints.
• Experience in performance and/or power simulation environments, such as taking ideas from concept to C/C++ simulator implementation.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Perl or Python.

Responsibilities

• Analyze single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with CPU designers in micro-architecture and RTL to assess feasibility and refine ideas for implementability.
• Help maintain and improve the simulation environment to enable data-driven decisions across the team.

Skills

CPU architecture

Performance bottleneck analysis

Cross-team collaboration

Simulation & modeling

Perl/Python scripting

Education

MS or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Tools

C/C++ simulation

RTL understanding

Job description

Apple Inc. in Santa Clara, California, is seeking a CPU Performance Architect focused on CPU micro-architecture. You will work with a team driving next-generation iPhone, iPad, and Mac CPUs, exploring novel ideas, collecting data, and validating concepts through modeling and simulator work.

You will analyze workloads, partner with design and RTL teams, and help optimize latency, pipelines, and power while advancing the simulation environment for data-driven decisions.