What are the responsibilities and job description for the CPU Microprocessor Design Engineer position at Apple?
Summary
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Role Number:200461005
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Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products! We are looking to hire talented engineers who are experienced 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
Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience
Minimum BS and 10 years of relevant industry experience
Additional Requirements
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