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CPU MicroArchitect / RTL Engineer - Site Lead

Beaverton, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-13 → 2026-09-28

Core

Design high-performance, low-power microprocessors for Apple products including iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac.

Role type

Senior IC CPU MicroArchitect / RTL Engineer (Site Lead)

Builds

CPU cores and microprocessor architectures

Domain

Consumer electronics / Semiconductor / CPU Design

Required skills

Microprocessor architecture, Verilog, VHDL, Logic design principles, Timing analysis, Power analysis, Simulation, Waveform debugging

Preferred skills

Team leadership, Mentoring, Instruction fetch and decode, Branch prediction, Instruction scheduling, Register renaming, Out-of-order execution, Integer and floating point execution, Load/store execution, Cache and memory subsystems, Low power techniques, High performance techniques, C/C++ programming, Perl/Python

Technologies

Verilog, VHDL, Simulators, Waveform debugging tools, C, C++, Perl, Python

Responsibilities

Define microarchitecture specifications from high-level exploration to detailed design, Develop and refine RTL to meet power, performance, area, and timing goals, Support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification, Explore high-performance strategies and validate RTL against targets, Collaborate on physical design implementation for timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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