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Apple CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer United States, California 435460371
18.11.2024
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Description
As a CPU Cache Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in 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 formal 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Knowledge of microprocessor architecture
- Knowledge of Verilog and/or VHDL
- Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools
- Knowledge of logic design principles along with timing and power implications
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Coherence protocols and interconnects
- High performance (low latency, high bandwidth) design techniques
- Memory subsystem queuing, scheduling; starvation and deadlock avoidance
- SRAM design basics
- Multiple clock/power domains and power management strategies
- Prefetchers, replacement policies
- Debug capabilities
- DFT strategies
- Error detection and correction
- 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
Pay & Benefits
- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 and $312,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
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