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Apple

CPU Power Management RTL Architect

Weston, MA

Summary

Posted: Oct 19, 2023

Role Number:200513161

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hard-working people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products! The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Do you want to join us in these pursuits? Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! 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 technical leader to drive architecture and RTL for world-class CPU power management solutions.

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Key Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Thorough knowledge of microprocessor architecture including expertise in one or more of the following areas: Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, Advanced thermal and energy management, Power state definition and management, Dynamic clocking solutions, Di/dt mitigation strategies, Micro-architecture strategies for improved power integrity, Debug, error handling, and security solutions, DFT strategies, Clock generation, reset control and asynchronous clock crossing strategies, Multi-voltage design strategies.
  • Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL and experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
  • Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
  • Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
  • Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
  • Experience in C or C++ programming
  • Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

Description

As a CPU RTL Architect, you will own or contribute to 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 functional 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.

Education & Experience

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

Client-provided location(s): Waltham, MA, USA
Job ID: apple-200513161-6
Employment Type: Other

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