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Embedded CPU Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Beaverton, OR), Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$184.7k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Embedded CPU Engineer focused on performance and power efficiency for Apple's embedded CPUs across product lines. Responsibilities include modeling, RTL collaboration, performance correlation, workload analysis, and driving architectural optimizations to balance performance, power, and area.

Responsibilities

  • Drive performance and efficiency optimization and explore architectural features for Apple’s embedded CPUs
  • Collaborate with CPU designers in micro-architecture and RTL to assess feasibility of ideas through modeling and refine those ideas to make them implementable
  • Correlate RTL with the CPU performance simulator to ensure design meets targets and model accuracy
  • Analyze specific workloads across varied product categories to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement
  • Maintain and improve simulation and correlation environments to enable data-driven decisions

Qualifications

  • BS degree
  • Experience in CPU and SOC architecture and micro-architecture
  • Experience with performance simulation environments
  • Object-oriented programming skills in C/C++
  • Experience in a scripting language such as Perl or Python
  • Expertise in CPU microarchitecture in one or more: branch prediction, prefetching, pipeline optimization, datapath, memory hierarchy
  • 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science
  • Understanding of common data structures and algorithms
  • Familiarity with SIMD, vector, or accelerator architectures
  • Understanding of power-performance trade-offs in CPU designs, system-level power management, and low-power design techniques
  • Comfortable in an environment of uncertainty and able to navigate ambiguities
  • Experience in a research-driven environment

Skills

Required:C/C++Performance modelingRTL collaborationScripting (Python/Perl)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational reimbursement for related coursework
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission potential
  • Relocation assistance
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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