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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple· Silicon Engineering Group (SEG)
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Hybrid (Israel)full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

RTL Engineer responsible for microarchitecture development, RTL feature ownership, validation, performance exploration, and design delivery within Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group.

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 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with Verilog and/or VHDL
  • Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
  • Experience with logic design principles
  • Experience with microprocessor architecture, including experience with at least one of: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems
  • Experience with timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture
  • Experience with low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques
  • Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python
  • Experience in C or C++ programming

Skills

Required:VerilogSimulators and waveform debuggingMicroprocessor architectureC/C++Python/Perl
Nice to have:VHDL
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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