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Microarchitecture Rtl Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

CPU Systems RTL Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$117K - $160K/yr

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

RISCV CPU System RTL Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$117K - $160K/yr

Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques * Knowledge of high-performance design ... RTL Engineer, you will own or contribute to the following: * Explore performance and power ...

Senior RTL Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

Role Overview We are looking for a Senior RTL Engineer to help build Velaura's next-generation ... and microarchitecture. • Analyze performance bottlenecks and propose architectural and ...

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 ...

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. * 12+ years of experience in CPU RTL design, microarchitecture, or related semiconductor ...

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 ...

Hardware Engineer, RTL

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $400K/yr

You will own RTL from microarchitecture to tapeout: writing microarchitecture specifications, creating synthesizable SystemVerilog, working with design verification engineers fully test the design ...

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 ...

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

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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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CPU ML Microarchitect/RTL Engineer

Santa Clara, CA • On-site

Apple
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing • 10K+ employees

Full-time

Re-posted 11 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 CPU machine-learning accelerator architecture and RTL development for Apple Silicon.
Description
As a CPU ML Microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following:
• Micro-architecture development and specification - from early high-level architectural exploration, through micro-architectural research and arriving at a detailed specification
• RTL ownership - development, assessment and refinement of RTL design to target power, performance, area and timing goals
• Verification - support the verification team in test bench development, formal methods, and simulation/emulation for functional verification
• Performance exploration and correlation - explore high-performance strategies and work with the performance verification team to verify that the RTL design meets targeted performance
• Design delivery - work with multi-functional engineering team to implement and verify physical design on the aspects of timing, area, reliability, testability and power
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with microprocessor architecture
Experience with logic design principles with timing and power implications
Experience in Verilog or VHDL
Experience with simulators and waveform debugging process
Preferred Qualifications
Expertise in one or more of the following areas: out-of-order execution, instruction scheduling, integer and floating point execution, load/store execution, cache and memory subsystems
Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
Understanding of high-performance techniques and trade-offs in a CPU microarchitecture
Experience in C or C++ programming
Experience using an interpretive language such as Perl or Python

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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