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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 architecture and RTL development of next generation CPUs.

Description

As a 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 feature ownership - development, assessment and refinement of new RTL features 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 multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of logic design principles

Expertise with one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems

Understanding of timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture

Understanding of low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques

Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Experience with microprocessor architecture

Experience with Verilog or VHDL

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Industry: Technology: Manufacturing

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