Apple
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Develop CPU microarchitecture and RTL for integer, floating-point, and/or load/store execution in high-performance Apple processors.
What you'll do
- Explore and specify microarchitecture, from early architectural concepts through detailed specifications.
- Develop and refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals; support verification through testbench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation.
- Explore performance strategies and collaborate on physical design implementation and verification, including timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience with microprocessor architecture.
- Experience with logic design principles and their timing and power implications.
- Experience in Verilog or VHDL, simulators, and waveform debugging.
Nice to have
- Expertise in one or more of: out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer and floating-point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems.
- Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques and high-performance CPU microarchitecture trade-offs; experience in C or C++ and Perl or Python.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Perl, Python
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