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CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Apple · Austin · Posted 2026-08-26

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Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hard-working people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products! The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products! Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products, including the iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac. We are looking for an experienced engineer to drive architecture and RTL development of next generation CPUs. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum BS and 20+ years of relevant industry experience Experience with microprocessor architecture Experience with Verilog or VHDL Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of logic design principles Expertise with one or more of the following areas: instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems Understanding of timing, power and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture Understanding of low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi