Apple
CPU Processor Performance Verification Engineer
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Verifies, characterizes, and tunes CPU performance across pre-silicon designs and silicon systems, collaborating with hardware, software, OS, and compiler teams.
What you'll do
- Verify CPU performance features and correlate results with performance models across pre- and post-silicon.
- Develop performance test plans, tests, tools, checkers, and coverage monitors; analyze benchmarks and debug performance issues.
- Profile and tune software and CPU performance across silicon, OS, and compiler versions, and present results to cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- Performance modeling, processor verification, or RTL design experience.
- Experience in digital logic design, CPU architecture, and microarchitecture.
- Experience developing performance test plans and writing/debugging assembly tests for performance correlation and verification.
- Programming skills in assembly, C/C++, Verilog, System Verilog, or scripting.
Nice to have
- Benchmark/workload analysis and CPU performance profiling; compiler techniques and OS knowledge for performance optimization.
- Instruction profiling tools on silicon, advanced CPU performance modeling, or silicon validation experience.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (USD, base salary)
Tools
assembly, C/C++, Verilog, System Verilog
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