Apple
CPU ML Microarchitect/RTL Engineer
$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 machine-learning accelerator architecture and RTL for Apple Silicon, from early architectural exploration through design delivery and verification.
What you'll do
- Develop microarchitecture and detailed specifications.
- Own and refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals; explore and correlate performance.
- Support verification and collaborate on physical-design implementation, including timing, area, reliability, testability, and power.
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 one or more CPU areas such as out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, execution units, or cache and memory subsystems; understanding of low-power or high-performance CPU microarchitecture techniques.
- Experience in C or C++ and an interpretive language such as Perl or Python.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (USD base salary range)
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, C, C++, Perl, Python
AI focus
Develop CPU machine-learning accelerator architecture and RTL.
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