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Power, Performance and Thermal Architect - Platform Architecture Team

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Beaverton, OR; Cupertino, CA; San Diego, CA; Seattle, WA)$216.2k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior architect role focused on extending and optimizing Apple Silicon power, performance, and thermal control architecture across platforms and deployment scenarios, coordinating with SoC, power delivery, OS, control systems, and platform power management stakeholders to extract maximum performance under power and thermal constraints.

Responsibilities

  • Extend Apple's SoC power, performance and thermal control architecture to new platforms and deployment scenarios.
  • Partner with SoC and power delivery architects, operating system designers, control system engineers and platform power management stakeholders to drive high-efficiency system architectures.
  • Develop and specify new hardware and software features to extract maximum capabilities from systems operating under power, performance and thermal constraints.

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar engineering degree.
  • Experience with computer architecture.
  • Experience with power management.
  • M.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar engineering degree.
  • 20+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Experience with software performance analysis and optimization.
  • Experience with operating system implementation.
  • Experience with power delivery control, thermal management and workload scheduling at scale.
  • Experience with machine learning workloads.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Skills

Required:Power managementComputer architectureOperating system implementationSoftware performance analysis and optimizationPower delivery control
Nice to have:Machine learning workloads

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Employee stock purchase plan eligibility
  • Stock awards through discretionary employee stock programs
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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