Apple
CPU Processor Performance Verification Engineer
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Verifies and tunes CPU performance across pre-silicon models and physical silicon, collaborating with hardware and software teams to identify and resolve performance issues.
What you'll do
- Develop performance verification plans, tests, infrastructure, checkers, and coverage monitors.
- Analyze, benchmark, correlate, and debug CPU performance across silicon, OS, and compiler versions.
- Work with architects, RTL designers, OS/compiler teams, and application developers to tune performance and present results.
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 and workload analysis, CPU performance profiling, or silicon validation experience.
- Knowledge of compiler techniques, OS performance optimization, or instruction profiling tools on silicon.
Pay
USD $150,400 to $277,600 base salary
Tools
assembly, C/C++, Verilog, System Verilog
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