The role is for an experienced RTL Engineer within Apple's Silicon Engineering Group, focusing on the architecture and RTL development of next-generation CPUs. The team is dedicated to designing high-performance, low-power microprocessors that power Apple's innovative products. The engineer will engage in microarchitecture development, RTL feature ownership, and validation processes. This position requires collaboration with multifunctional engineering teams to ensure the successful implementation and validation of designs.

• Minimum BS degree and 20+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience with microprocessor architecture
• Proficiency in Verilog or VHDL
• Knowledge of logic design principles
• Expertise in instruction fetch and decode, branch prediction, instruction scheduling, register renaming, out-of-order execution, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, or cache and memory subsystems
• Understanding of timing, power, and area tradeoffs in CPU microarchitecture
• Familiarity with low power and high performance microarchitecture techniques
• Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python
• Experience with simulators and waveform debugging tools such as Verdi

• Develop and specify microarchitecture from high-level exploration to detailed specification
• Own the development, assessment, and refinement of new RTL features targeting power, performance, area, and timing goals
• Support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
• Explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance
• Collaborate with multifunctional engineering teams to implement and validate physical design aspects including timing, area, reliability, testability, and power

• Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.