CPU Performance Modeling Engineer, Platform Architecture
Do you have an uncommon desire to seek out and solve exceedingly difficult challenges rather than the easy ones? Do you believe that truly valuable and meaningful accomplishments are the result of pushing the limits of perseverance? Do you believe that a world-class team with relentless drive can surpass even their own high expectations? We do! But we also realize this job isn't for everyone. What we do isn't easy, but you don't take the easy path. We are seeking a highly motivated, innovative, and confident individuals to join the CPU Architecture and Performance Team; we are a group that is driving advanced exploration for next generation iPhone, iPad, and Mac CPU architectures.
Description
As a CPU Performance Modeling Engineer with a focus on CPU microarchitecture, you'll be part of a team pioneering innovation in branch prediction, code/data prefetchers, novel prediction schemes, and CPU pipelines. Your role involves modeling advanced CPU microarchitecture pipelines, novel performance ideas and features in our high-fidelity cycle-accurate performance simulator and assessing their effectiveness. You'll collaborate closely with RTL designers and performance verification engineers to ensure the model's accuracy in both functional and performance aspects, which are crucial for critical design decisions. Together, as a larger CPU architecture and performance team, we'll maintain and improve the simulation environment to enable data-driven decisions and explore ways to enhance team productivity.
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Preferred Qualifications
MS or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science
Knowledge of digital logic design, CPU architecture, and microarchitecture
Experience in CPU performance modeling, RTL design, or CPU verification, or equivalent coursework at the advanced level
Knowledge of OS internals and compiler technologies
Comfortable in an environment of uncertainty and able to walk through ambiguities
Communication, influence and negotiation skills
Minimum Qualifications
BS degree
Knowledge of computer architecture fundamentals
Familiarity with performance simulation environments
Coding skills including object-oriented programming with C and C++
Experience in scripting languages such as Perl or Python
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