Apple
CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Fetch, Out of Order
$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 front-end and/or out-of-order subsystem architecture and RTL for high-performance, low-power processor cores, supporting verification and 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.
- Explore and correlate performance, and work with cross-functional teams on physical design implementation and verification.
What they ask for
- Experience with microprocessor architecture.
- Experience with logic design principles and their timing and power implications.
- Experience in Verilog or VHDL.
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging.
Nice to have
- Expertise in out-of-order execution or related CPU execution, cache, and memory subsystems; understanding of low-power and high-performance microarchitecture techniques.
- Experience with C or C++ and an interpretive language such as Perl or Python.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Perl, Python
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