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CPU Performance Architect, Platform Architecture

Cambridge, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-28 → 2026-09-28

Core

Defining and optimizing CPU and cache micro-architecture, specifically focusing on the memory subsystem, to enhance performance for next-generation Apple products.

Role type

Senior IC CPU Performance Architect (Memory Subsystem)

Builds

Next-generation iPhone, iPad, Mac, and server CPU designs

Domain

Semiconductor / CPU Architecture

Required skills

CPU and SoC architecture, micro-architecture design, performance simulation, C/C++ programming, scripting (Perl/Python), workload analysis, bottleneck identification

Preferred skills

Memory latency tolerance techniques, prefetching, caching policies, SIMD/vector architectures, MP performance, research-driven environment experience

Technologies

C, C++, Perl, Python, Simulation environments

Responsibilities

Identify performance bottlenecks in CPU and cache micro-architecture, evaluate ideas to address bottlenecks, engage with designers to assess feasibility through modeling, analyze single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads, maintain simulation environment for data-driven decisions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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