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Power, Performance and Thermal Architect - Platform Architecture Team

Apple
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Hybrid (Beaverton / multiple sites)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior architect role focused on extending and optimizing Apple Silicon power, performance, and thermal control architectures across platforms and deployments, working at the intersection of hardware and software to influence features and system-level design.

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:SoC power, performance and thermal architecturePower managementOperating system implementationSoftware performance analysis and optimization
Nice to have:Machine learning workloads
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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