Senior Media-IP SoC Performance Architect

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 216,200 - 324,800; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Media-IP SoC Performance Architect to join Platform Architecture. You’ll own performance models for media IPs in Apple’s SoCs, collaborating across hardware and software teams to optimize performance, power, and area.

The role emphasizes data-driven architectural insights for customers across Apple products, including Vision Pro and iPhone. The position focuses on C++ performance modeling, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering architectural

Qualifications

• Experience in computer architecture and software engineering.
• Experience in C++ object‑oriented software development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with 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 the performance models against the specification and correlate 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

Computer architecture

C++ OO development

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Media-IP SoC Performance Architect to join Platform Architecture. You’ll own performance models for media IPs in Apple’s SoCs, collaborating across hardware and software teams to optimize performance, power, and area.

The role emphasizes data-driven architectural insights for customers across Apple products, including Vision Pro and iPhone. The position focuses on C++ performance modeling, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering architectural