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Description As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro ...

Description As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro ...

Description As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro ...

We are looking for an engineer to architect and develop RTL for next generation CPUs. Description ... Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration ...

Description As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro ...

Description As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: • Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro ...

What You'll Do: * Own RTL design of digital blocks/subsystems for our accelerator ... Drive microarchitecture trade-offs -- pipelining, datapath vs. control, clock/power gating -- for ...

Description As a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will participate in the following: • Micro ... a CPU microarchitecture Experience in C or C++ programming Experience using an interpretive ...

Sivaltech is hiring an experienced RTL Design Engineer with strong Ethernet expertise for a high ... RTL design & microarchitecture development * Ethernet subsystem integration (MAC/PCS/SerDes)

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Description As a CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will participate in the following: • Micro ... a CPU microarchitecture Experience in C or C++ programming Experience using an interpretive ...

Role Overview We are looking for a Senior RTL Engineer to help build Velaura's next-generation ... Strong understanding of computer architecture, microarchitecture, and digital design fundamentals.

Define the microarchitecture of digital SoC modules and subsystems * Develop production-quality RTL ... Partner with verification engineers on test planning, debug, and coverage closure * Collaborate ...

CPU Systems RTL Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$167K - $250K/yr

Microarchitecture development and specification. From early high-level architectural exploration, through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification. * RTL ownership.

Master's degree in computer or electrical engineering with 1‑3 years of experience in CPU RTL or ... Understanding of low‑power microarchitecture techniques * Knowledge of high‑performance design ...

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As of Sep 10, 2026, the average yearly pay for microarchitecture rtl engineer in the United States is $158,244.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $166,000.00 and $166,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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Infographic showing various Microarchitecture Rtl Engineer job openings in the United States as of June 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 4% Full Time, 25% Part Time, 5% Temporary, 62% Contract, and 3% Nights. Highlights an 90% Physical, 7% Hybrid, and 3% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $158,244 per year, or $76.1 per hour.

CPU Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Austin, TX • On-site

Apple
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing • 10K+ employees

Full-time

Re-posted 28 days ago


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Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, hard-working people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products! The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products!
Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products, including the iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac. We are looking for an experienced engineer to drive architecture and RTL development of next generation CPUs.
Description
As a RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:
• Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration through micro architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
• RTL feature ownership - development, assessment and refinement of new RTL features to target power, performance, area and timing goals
• Validation - support test bench development and simulation for functional and performance verification
• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high performance strategies and validate that the RTL design meets targeted performance
• Design delivery - work with multifunctional engineering team to implement and validate physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability, and power
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of logic design principles
Expertise with one or more of the following areas: 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
Understanding of 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
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with microprocessor architecture
Experience with Verilog or VHDL

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Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same real passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it.

Industry

Computer and electronic product manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Cupertino, CA, US

Year founded

1976