Apple
Embedded CPU Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture
$185K–$278K
Beaverton, Oregon +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Beaverton, Oregon
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience preferred.
- Education
- BS degree; MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science preferred.
About the job
Optimizes performance and power efficiency of Apple embedded CPUs by analyzing workloads, modeling architectural ideas, and correlating RTL with CPU performance simulations.
What you'll do
- Analyze workloads to identify performance bottlenecks and opportunities across product categories.
- Model and refine CPU architecture ideas with microarchitecture and RTL designers, balancing performance, power, and area.
- Correlate RTL with the CPU performance simulator and improve simulation and correlation environments.
What they ask for
- BS degree
- Experience in CPU and SOC architecture and micro-architecture
- Experience with performance simulation environments
- Object-oriented programming skills in C/C++ and scripting experience in Perl or Python
Nice to have
- Expertise in CPU microarchitecture, such as branch prediction, prefetching, pipeline optimization, datapath, or memory hierarchy
- Familiarity with SIMD, vector, or accelerator architectures
Pay
$184,700 to $277,600 (USD base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Perl, Python, RTL
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