Apple
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Drive CPU architecture and RTL development, verification, performance exploration, and design delivery for next-generation processors.
What you'll do
- Develop microarchitecture specifications from architectural exploration through detailed design.
- Own and refine RTL features to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals; support testbench development and simulation.
- Explore performance strategies and collaborate with engineering teams on physical design implementation and validation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree (BS).
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience with microprocessor architecture.
- Experience with Verilog or VHDL.
Nice to have
- Expertise in one or more CPU areas, such as instruction scheduling, branch prediction, execution, or cache and memory subsystems.
- Experience with Perl or Python, or with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi.
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, Perl, Python, Verdi
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