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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Fetch, Out of Order

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Beaverton, OR; Santa Clara, CA; Waltham, MA)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple Silicon Engineering Group seeks an experienced CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer to drive architecture and RTL development for CPU front-end and/or out-of-order subsystems in high-performance, low-power cores.

Responsibilities

  • Micro-architecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration, through micro-architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
  • RTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals
  • Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for functional verification
  • Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance
  • Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with microprocessor architecture
  • Experience with logic design principles with timing and power implications
  • Experience in Verilog or VHDL
  • Experience with simulators and waveform debugging process
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution
  • Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
  • Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
  • Experience in C or C++ programming
  • Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

Skills

Required:Microprocessor architectureVerilog or VHDLRTL design and verificationSimulators and waveform debuggingInstruction fetch, decode, branch prediction, scheduling, register renaming, OOO execution
Nice to have:C/C++ programmingPython/Perl

Benefits

  • [Not specified in the description]
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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