Apple
CPU Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture
$185K–$278K
Austin, Texas +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Beaverton, Oregon
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience preferred; no minimum years stated.
- Education
- BS degree; MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
About the job
Explore and evaluate CPU micro-architecture improvements by analyzing workloads, modeling performance ideas, and improving simulation tools for future Apple products.
What you'll do
- Investigate and model improvements to branch prediction, prefetchers, prediction schemes, and CPU pipelines.
- Analyze single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads to identify performance bottlenecks and opportunities.
- Collaborate with CPU designers on feasibility, model correlation, and simulation environment improvements.
What they ask for
- BS degree
- Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture
- Experience in performance and/or power simulation environments
- Coding experience with object-oriented programming in C and C++, and scripting languages such as Perl or Python
Nice to have
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science
Pay
$184,700 and $277,600 (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Perl, Python
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