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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Fetch, Out of Order

Apple· Hardware
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Waltham, MA, Beaverton, OR, Santa Clara, CA$165.8k - $292.4kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leadership role in Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) focusing on architecture and RTL development of CPU front-end and out-of-order subsystem for high-performance 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 verify RTL design meets targeted performance
  • Design delivery - collaborate with multi-functional engineering teams to implement and verify physical design focusing on 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

Skills

Required:Microprocessor architectureVerilog or VHDLSimulators and waveform debuggingOut-of-order execution
Nice to have:Instruction fetch and decodeBranch predictionC or C++ programmingPython or Perl

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be eligible
  • participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
  • Apple stock purchase plan eligibility
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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