Apple
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Develop CPU microarchitecture and RTL for high-performance processor execution units, supporting verification, performance analysis, and physical design delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop microarchitecture and specifications from architectural exploration through detailed design.
- Own and refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals; support functional verification and performance correlation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on physical design implementation and verification, including timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.
- Experience with microprocessor architecture and logic design principles, including timing and power implications.
- Experience in Verilog or VHDL.
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging.
Nice to have
- Expertise in out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, execution units, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems.
- Understanding of low-power or high-performance CPU microarchitecture techniques; experience with C/C++ or Perl/Python.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Perl, Python
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