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Apple

CPU Performance Engineer

Austin, Texas +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2025

Location
Austin, Texas
Beaverton, Oregon
Experience
10+ years of relevant industry experience.
Education
Minimum BS.

About the job

Architects and analyzes CPU performance features, models, and tools, and works across hardware and software teams to improve performance and power.

What you'll do

  • Architect CPU performance features and resolve hardware and software performance bottlenecks.
  • Develop CPU performance simulators, exploration and correlation tools, and processes.
  • Profile and optimize workloads, and correlate RTL performance with the CPU simulator.

What they ask for

  • Experience in CPU performance architecture, micro-architecture design, and performance analysis.
  • Experience working in a performance modeling environment.
  • Experience using C/C++.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in Perl and Python; knowledge of performance benchmarks and workloads.
  • Knowledge of OS internals and compiler technology.

Tools

C/C++, Perl, Python, RTL

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