Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)