CPU Performance Architect, Platform Architecture

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Austin, TX
Posted: 17 days ago
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As a CPU Performance Architect, Platform Architecture, you will join the CPU Architecture and Performance Team to drive advanced exploration for next-generation iPhone, iPad, and Mac CPU architectures. You will focus on micro-architecture by exploring innovations in branch prediction, code and data prefetchers, novel prediction schemes to improve latency, and optimization of CPU pipelines. Your daily work involves collecting measurements to validate ideas, collaborating with designers to assess feasibility through modeling, and refining concepts for implementation. You will analyze single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads across various product categories to identify bottlenecks while maintaining the simulation environment. Required skills include expertise in CPU micro-architecture, performance bottleneck analysis, and power efficiency. Technical requirements include experience with C/C++ simulator implementations, scripting languages like Perl or Python, and knowledge of SIMD, vector architectures, OS internals, and compiler technologies.

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CPU Micro-architecture Branch Prediction Prefetchers RTL C++ Python Perl SIMD Vector Architectures Compiler Technologies OS Internals Data Structures Algorithms Software Design Patterns Power Simulation

What you'll do

Develop and innovate new branch prediction, prefetcher, and pipeline optimization schemes.
Analyze single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads to identify performance bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
Collect and analyze data measurements to validate or rule out architectural ideas.
Collaborate with RTL designers to refine concepts into implementable micro-architecture designs.
Address timing and power efficiency challenges while ensuring designs fit within system constraints.
Implement new architectural concepts into C/C++ simulation environments.
Maintain and improve the team's simulation environment to enable data-driven decision making.

What we're looking for

Bachelor of Science degree.
Experience with CPU architecture and micro-architecture.
Experience conceiving novel performance ideas using micro-architecture knowledge and bottleneck analysis.
Experience collaborating with design and implementation teams to address timing, power efficiency, and system constraints.
Experience in performance and/or power simulation environments, including C/C++ simulator implementation.
Experience with scripting languages such as Perl or Python.
20+ years of relevant industry experience (preferred).
MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (preferred).

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