Apple
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store
$129K–$195K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Develop CPU microarchitecture and RTL for high-performance processor execution units, supporting verification, performance exploration, and physical design delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop microarchitecture and detailed specifications through architectural exploration and research.
- Own, assess, and refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals; support functional verification.
- Explore performance strategies and collaborate on verification and physical design implementation.
Nice to have
- Expertise in one or more areas such as out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer or floating-point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems.
- Experience with C or C++, Perl or Python, microprocessor architecture, logic design, Verilog or VHDL, or simulators and waveform debugging.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 (base salary range)
Tools
C, C++, Perl, Python, Verilog, VHDL
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