Job Details

FE Engineer

Cupertino, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 20, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200607901

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Work with all fields (vertical product model) with a critical impact in getting impactful products to millions of customers quickly. Work closely with Architecture to understand the performance goals of the design. Correlate RTL performance against model performance. Perform deep performance analysis in the design and report findings. Identify performance bottlenecks in design and coordinate with the Architecture team to improve performance. Define performance statistics to help performance debugging and standard methodologies to enhance performance correlation effort. Utilize strong interpersonal skills, work independently, and lead work to align with the project goals, plus support multi-functional engineering efforts. Work with Architecture, Modeling, Micro-Architecture, Design, and Verification teams for performance test plan definition. Drive the definition of the testing methodology for executing the test plan. Develop testbench infrastructure for monitoring, checking and covering on-chip activity in SystemVerilog, and C++. Architect and implement data analysis and visualization methodologies of simulation performance data. Design and Performance Model. Review results and analysis of performance validation work with the cross-functional audience. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 - $214,500/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

• Experience and/or education with each of the following:

• Experience in Computer Architecture, including Cache Coherency, Cache Hierarchy Fundamentals, Fabric Interconnect fundamentals to help debug performance bottlenecks

• Experience in Data Structures and Algorithms, including using python, C++ and System Verilog to work on multi-language codebases.

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming, including using python, C++ and System Verilog to work on multi-language codebases.

• Using waveform viewers to debug performance bottlenecks in hardware, including developing System Verilog monitors to automate performance stat collection

• Using C and C++, including updating and reviewing software model used to represent the hardware

• Scripting in Python and Perl experience, including using scripting in Python and Perl to analyze and provide visual representation of performance data.

• Experience in design verification to help develop robust test plans.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

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