Apple
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Fetch, Out of Order
$129K–$195K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Drive architecture and RTL development for CPU front-end and/or out-of-order subsystems, from specification through verification and design delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop microarchitecture and specifications through architectural exploration and research.
- Own, assess, and refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals; support functional verification.
- Explore and verify performance, and collaborate with engineering teams on physical design implementation.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
Nice to have
- Microprocessor architecture and logic design experience, including timing and power implications.
- Experience with Verilog or VHDL, simulators and waveform debugging, CPU execution or memory subsystems, low-power and high-performance microarchitecture, C or C++, or Perl or Python.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 (base salary)
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Perl, Python
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