CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer – 200571948 -Santa Clara, California, United States

Apple

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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 who can drive CPU multi-level cache subsystem architecture and RTL development for multi-processor systems.

As a CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:

• Micro-architecture 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.
• Verification – support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for formal verification
• Performance exploration and correlation – explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance.
• Design delivery – work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power.

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experienceKnowledge of microprocessor architectureKnowledge of Verilog and/or VHDLExperience with simulators and waveform debugging toolsKnowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications

 

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