CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer
Posted 2025-04-06Summary
Posted: Oct 6, 2024
Role Number:200571313
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AppleÂs Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) is hiring dedicated engineers for CPU architecture and microarchitecture development targeted for low power mobile devices.
Description
Description
As an RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:
 Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
 RTL ownership  development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals
 Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
 Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance
 Design delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
 Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
 Knowledge of microprocessor architecture
 Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL
 Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
 Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
Key Qualifications
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
 Expertise in one or more of the following areas of microprocessor architecture: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling and register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems
 Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
 Understanding of high performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
 Experience in C or C++ programming
 Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python
Education & Experience
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Additional Requirements
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