CPU Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $184,700–$277,600 / yr
Posted: 159 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $209k

This role $231k

$135k most similar roles pay here $293k

This role pays more than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$248,781 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $231k versus about $209k 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 Engineer, Platform Architecture

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As a CPU Performance Engineer, 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 investigating branch prediction, code and data prefetchers, novel prediction schemes, and CPU pipelines. Your daily responsibilities include collecting measurements to validate ideas, collaborating with designers in micro-architecture and RTL to assess feasibility through modeling, and analyzing single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads to identify bottlenecks across product categories. You will also help maintain the simulation environment to enable data-driven decisions. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, Perl, or Python, along with experience in performance and power simulation environments. Technical expertise includes knowledge of SIMD and vector architectures, OS internals, compiler technologies, and common data structures and algorithms.