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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

At Apple - Remote / Flexible

Posted on Oct 6

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Apple

CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Remote / FlexiblePosted Oct 6, 2026

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Apple's Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is hiring dedicated engineers for CPU architecture and microarchitecture development.

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
Experience with microprocessor architecture, including experience with at least one of the following: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems
Experience with timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture
Experience with low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques
Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python
Experience in C or C++ programming

Minimum Qualifications
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with Verilog and/or VHDL
Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
Experience with logic design principles

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