CPU Microprocessor Design Engineer

Apple

3.7

(120)

Beaverton, OR

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    Position summary

    rienced in CPU architecture and microarchitecture to develop our world-class CPU designs. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product!

    Description

    As an RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: - Microarchitecture 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 - Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification - Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance - Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

    Minimum Qualifications

    Key Qualifications

    • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

    • Should possess direct CPU RTL experience

    • Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems

    • Expert in using Verilog and/or VHDL. Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools

    • Expert in logic design principles along with timing and power implications

    • Must have deep understanding of high performance and low power techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture

    • Experience in working with cross-disciplinary teams to define CPU microarchitecture features

    • Experience in C or C++ programming is a plus

    • Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

    Education & Experience

    Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

    Additional Requirements

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    • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

    Why you should apply for a job to Apple:

  • 66% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 66% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Company commitment that women earn the same as men performing similar work includes no salary history disclosure policy.
  • Apple University creates classes, seminars, and tools to help employees understand Apple’s culture, organization, and values.
  • Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match charitable contributions up to $10,000 a year.