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Media-IP SoC Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture

Cupertino, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2025-11-13 → 2026-09-28

Core

Design and optimize performance models for complex multi-media IPs powering Apple SoCs to ensure best customer experience across devices like iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.

Role type

Senior IC media-IP SoC performance engineer (platform architecture)

Builds

Performance models and custom analysis tools for multi-media IPs

Domain

Consumer electronics / Computer architecture

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++ (object-oriented, STL), Python, performance modeling, data analytics, statistics, machine learning, SoC architecture (fabrics, memory systems, QoS, arbitration, queuing theory), RTL correlation

Preferred skills

MS/PhD, 3+ years industry experience, modular object-oriented design patterns, shell scripting, Lua, trace analysis, data flow simulation

Technologies

C++, Python, Lua, shell scripting, RTL, performance models

Responsibilities

Collaborate with architects and software teams to plan, implement, and validate high-level C++ performance models; Develop custom tools for analyzing and visualizing performance data using data science and ML; Present performance study results to drive architectural decisions; Validate performance models against specifications and correlate with RTL; Analyze product traces and simulate data flow for Media use cases to provide performance and power feedback

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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