Media-IP SoC Performance Architect (Data-Driven)

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental cover

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Education reimbursement and relocation

Job summary

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Media-IP SoC Performance Architect to join our Platform Architecture team in Cupertino.

The role focuses on modeling and optimizing performance of Media IP across Apple’s SoCs, collaborating with design, software, and systems teams to deliver data-driven architectural insights that improve customer experiences. You will develop performance models, analyze traces, and present results to inform architectural trade-offs between performance, power, and area.

Qualifications

• Experience with computer architecture and software engineering principles.
• Experience with C++ object-oriented software development.
• Strong understanding of SoC architectures including fabrics, memory systems, QoS, arbitration, and queuing theory.
• Expertise in performance model development and analysis, including data analytics, statistics, and applied machine learning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with functional architects, design, and software teams to plan, implement, validate, and correlate high-level C++ performance models.
• Develop custom tools and approaches for analyzing and visualizing performance data, applying data science and machine learning techniques to provide architectural insights
• Present performance study results to cross-functional teams to inform and drive architectural decisions
• Validate performance models against the specification and correlating the model with RTL
• Use and develop tools for analyzing traces from products and simulating the data flow for Media use cases to provide performance and power feedback to the architecture and software teams

Skills

C++ development

Performance modeling

Python scripting

Data analytics

Communication skills

Education

MS/PhD with 20+ years of industry experience

Tools

STL libraries

Performance analysis tools

Job description

Apple, Inc. is seeking a Media-IP SoC Performance Architect to join our Platform Architecture team in Cupertino.

The role focuses on modeling and optimizing performance of Media IP across Apple’s SoCs, collaborating with design, software, and systems teams to deliver data-driven architectural insights that improve customer experiences. You will develop performance models, analyze traces, and present results to inform architectural trade-offs between performance, power, and area.