Performance Control Architect – Platform Architecture – 200528414 -Cupertino, California, United States

Apple

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Platform Architecture is looking for a Performance Control Architect to measure, analyze and control the relationship between power and performance in Apple’s most advanced systems on a chip. In this position, you will study the execution of iOS workloads on Apple silicon and leverage that understanding to influence the design of both hardware and software. You will design and conduct power/performance/thermal experiments, create instrumentation and data visualizations, contribute to Apple’s culture of debate, specify new SoC features, prototype innovative performance control algorithms, and develop the software that controls the performance of every application workload on hundreds of millions of iOS devices around the world.

As a Performance Control Architect, your job responsibilities will include:

– Design and conduct experiments to characterize execution efficiency and the effects of physical constraints such as temperature or current limits
– Use excellent empirical methodology to illuminate power–performance tradeoffs
– Collaborate with and influence a broad cross-functional audience spanning processor architecture, silicon engineering, system integration, OS development and application software performance evaluation
– Identify opportunities to improve the measurement and control capabilities of Apple SoCs
– Invent new performance control concepts and carry them through prototyping, production implementation and tuning

 

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