Graphics Software Content Engineer

Apple Inc.; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple invites skilled engineers to join the Silicon Engineering team to design and build workloads for GPU validation, performance, and power management. You’ll work with architecture, modeling, power, and software teams to ensure silicon brings up and beyond meets high quality and efficiency standards.

The role involves creating bit-accurate C/C++ models and collaborating across global engineering sites to deliver robust GPU workloads for verification and validation throughout the development

Qualifications

• Experience with GPU APIs like Metal, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, or shading languages.
• Knowledge of key graphics rendering algorithms.
• B.S. degree and 3 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Developing critical workloads for GPU validation (architecture, functionality, performance, power).
• Working with GPU hardware teams from design bring-up through post-silicon to identify and debug issues.
• Collaborating with GPU software teams during driver bring-up to rapidly identify and resolve issues.
• Create bit-accurate C/C++ models for hardware verification.

Skills

GPU APIs

Graphics rendering algorithms

C/C++ modeling

Debugging hardware/software

Education

B.S. degree

3 years experience

Tools

CUDA

Metal

OpenGL

DirectX

Vulkan

Job description

Do you love problem solving and creating elegant solutions to highly complex technical challenges? As part of our Silicon Engineering team, you’ll help develop and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient graphics processors! You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this team means you’ll be responsible for designing and building workloads that ensure Apple devices are best-in-class. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking product containing an Apple GPU! In this highly impactful role, you will be responsible for graphics workloads used by teams involved in all stages of the GPU development lifecycle, from early feature specification through silicon bring-up and beyond. You will work with other teams at engineering sites around the globe towards the shared goal of ensuring that Apple GPUs meet the highest quality and efficiency standards. This job involves designing, developing, and maintaining workloads for GPU architectural validation and design verification.

Description

Join the team to play a central role in developing upcoming Apple GPUs. You will have the opportunity to help develop the tools and techniques used to ensure the GPU is functional, performant, and within the expected power envelope. In this role, you will work alongside many other teams involved in GPU development, including but not limited to Architecture, Modeling, Performance, Power, Design Verification, Silicon Validation, Software, and Manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Core responsibilities of this highly collaborative role are:
• Developing critical workloads for GPU validation (architecture, functionality, performance, power).
• Working with the GPU hardware teams from design bring-up through post-silicon, to identify and debug architectural, logic, and silicon issues.
• Working with the GPU software teams during production driver bring-up to rapidly identify and resolve software issues.
• Create bit-accurate C/C++ models for hardware verification.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with GPU APIs like Metal, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, CUDA, or shading languages.
• Knowledge of key graphics rendering algorithms.
• Expertise and knowledge of graphics rendering algorithms
• B.S. degree and 3 years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of the software graphics pipeline and its application to computer graphics and / or ML.
• Architectural validation and design verification knowledge
• Knowledge of hardware architecture and/or graphics hardware
• Ability to work well in a team and be productive under aggressive schedules
• Excellent communications skills, self-motivated and well organized

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