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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, California; Beaverton, Oregon; Waltham, Massachusetts)$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple Silicon Engineering Group seeks an experienced CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer to drive architecture, RTL development, verification, and performance for CPU integer, floating-point, and load/store execution in 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 team to implement and verify physical design 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
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems
  • 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 architectureRTL design (Verilog or VHDL)Verification and test benchesPerformance verification
Nice to have:C/C++ programmingPython/Perl scripting

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation (potential)
  • Apple shareholder programs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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