CPU ML Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple
Santa Clara, United States of America2025-10-27

About the job

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hard-working people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products! The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products!

Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products, including the iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac We are looking for an experienced engineer to drive CPU machine-learning accelerator architecture and RTL development for Apple Silicon.

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 work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance

Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power

Qualifications

Minimum

Minimum BS and 3+ 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

Preferred

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