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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, Texas)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors and is seeking an experienced RTL Engineer to drive architecture and RTL development of next generation CPUs. The role covers microarchitecture development, RTL feature ownership, validation, performance exploration, and design delivery in collaboration with multifunctional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
  • RTL feature ownership – development, assessment and refinement of new RTL features to target power, performance, area and timing goals
  • Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
  • Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance
  • Design delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with microprocessor architecture
  • Experience with Verilog or VHDL
  • Knowledge of logic design principles
  • Expertise with one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems
  • Understanding of timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture
  • Understanding of low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques
  • Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python
  • Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi

Skills

Required:Microarchitecture developmentRTL feature ownershipVerilog or VHDLTest bench development and simulation
Nice to have:Programming (Perl or Python)Simulators and waveform debugging tools

Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
  • Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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