Apple
CPU Performance Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2025
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; academic or industry experience is requested.
- Education
- Minimum BS; preferred Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
About the job
Architect and evaluate CPU performance features, build performance simulators and tools, and collaborate across hardware and software teams to optimize workloads and correlate CPU performance.
What you'll do
- Architect CPU performance features with RTL and implementation teams; identify hardware and software performance bottlenecks.
- Develop CPU performance simulators, infrastructure, exploration tools, and correlation processes.
- Profile and optimize workloads for CPU performance and power; correlate RTL performance with the simulator.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
- Academic or industry experience in CPU performance architecture, micro-architecture design, and performance analysis.
- Academic or industry experience in a performance modeling environment.
- Academic or industry experience using C/C++.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Perl and Python; knowledge of common performance benchmarks and workloads.
- Knowledge of OS internals and compiler technology.
Tools
C/C++, Perl, Python
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