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Pre-Silicon Engineer

Apple· ANe Compiler Pre-Silicon team
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Cupertino, CA$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineer to join the ANE Compiler Pre-Silicon team, enabling new hardware features in the simulation environment and supporting initial chip bring up. Focus on optimizing performance and power in the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) simulation stack, collaborating across hardware and software teams from concept through hardware bring-up and validation.

Responsibilities

  • Implement new functional features in the compiler stack using Apple Neural Engine simulation environment, with an emphasis on performance and power.
  • Drive performance content delivery to the hardware team and triage functional issues.
  • Collaborate with the hardware team to review hardware specifications.
  • Work closely with the design and micro-architecture team to understand the functional and performance goals of the design.
  • Participate in workload selection and preparation of the ANE functional and performance test plan.
  • Deep-dive into hardware investigations to understand and root-cause performance gaps.
  • Evaluate new hardware features and contribute to the definition of architectural changes for future ANEs.
  • Develop features for future products, bringing those features from initial concept, through development, leading to hardware bringup and validation.
  • Partner with the driver/firmware teams to integrate HW acceleration in our software stack.
  • Collaborate more broadly with hardware design, verification, performance and architecture teams within our Silicon Engineering Group

Qualifications

  • Experience with SoC or/and GPU acceleration for AI
  • Experience with hardware reference models
  • Experience with hardware performance and power models
  • Experience with SW/HW parallelism, and asynchronous processing
  • Experience with embedded systems, and real time OS development
  • Excellent programming skills of C/C++
  • Excellent software design, problem solving and debugging skills
  • Good understanding of Deep Learning workloads
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills
  • Masters's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent field.

Skills

Required:SoC/GPU acceleration for AIHardware reference modelsHardware performance and power modelsSW/HW parallelism and asynchronous processingEmbedded systems and real-time OSC/C++ programmingDeep Learning workloadsCommunication and teamwork

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through discretionary stock programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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