CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer - Execution, Load/Store at Apple

Department: Hardware

Compensation · Listed in posting

$150,400 – $277,600

Location: California
Level: mid
Posted: Apr 14, 2026

Description

Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group is hiring a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer to develop and verify CPU cores for products such as the iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac. The role covers microarchitecture specification, RTL design, verification, performance exploration, and physical design implementation, with a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant industry experience.

Required Skills

Microprocessor architecture
RTL design
Verilog/VHDL
Waveform debugging
Out-of-order execution
C/C++

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree
Required Previous Experiences: At least 3 years of relevant industry experience
Microprocessor architecture experience
Logic design with timing and power implications
Verilog or VHDL experience
Simulator and waveform debugging experience
Preferred Qualifications: Expertise in out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer and floating-point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems
Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques
Understanding of high-performance CPU microarchitecture trade-offs
C or C++ programming experience
Perl or Python experience

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