Apple
CPU Performance Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience; academic or industry experience is accepted for the specified technical areas.
- Education
- Minimum BS; preferred Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
About the job
Architect and analyze CPU performance features, models, tools, and workloads to improve performance and power in Apple chip designs.
What you'll do
- Architect CPU performance features with RTL and implementation teams, and identify solutions to hardware and software bottlenecks.
- Develop CPU performance simulators, exploration and correlation tools, and processes.
- Profile and optimize critical workloads with software and system teams, and correlate RTL performance with the simulator.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Academic or industry experience in CPU performance architecture, micro-architecture design, and performance analysis.
- Academic or industry experience working in a performance modeling environment.
- Academic or industry experience using C/C++.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in scripting languages including Perl and Python.
- Knowledge of common performance benchmarks and workloads; OS internals and compiler technology are a plus.
Tools
RTL, C/C++, Perl, Python
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