CPU Performance Architect, Platform Architecture

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: —
Salary: $216,200–$324,800 / yr
Posted: 14 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $218k

This role $270k

$148k most similar roles pay here $344k

This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $180,837–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $270k versus about $218k for comparable roles.

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · CPU Performance Architect, Platform Architecture

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The CPU Performance Architect, Platform Architecture joins the CPU Architecture and Performance Team to drive advanced exploration for next-generation iPhone, iPad, and Mac CPU architectures. This role focuses on micro-architecture innovation in areas such as branch prediction, code and data prefetchers, novel prediction schemes to improve latency, and optimization of CPU pipelines. The architect will collect measurements to validate ideas, collaborate with designers to assess feasibility through modeling, and analyze single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads to identify bottlenecks. Key responsibilities include taking concepts from initial ideas to C/C++ simulator implementations while addressing timing and power efficiency challenges. Required skills include expertise in CPU micro-architecture, performance bottleneck analysis, and scripting languages like Perl or Python. The role also involves maintaining the simulation environment to enable data-driven decisions for the broader team.