Performance Modeling Software Engineer, Platform Architecture

Apple, Inc.

Cambridge, MA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apple, Architectural Design, Architectural Services, C++ Programming Language, CPU (Central Processing Unit), Customer Experience, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Hardware Architecture, Hardware Architecture Design, Hardware Design, Machine Learning, Memory Hardware, Performance Modeling, Software Development, Software Engineering, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Time Management
LOCATION
Cambridge, MA
POSTED
1 day ago

Role Number: 200660072-1242

Summary

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! Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product.

In this role, you will be a member of the system-on-chip (SOC) performance team, working within the Hardware Technologies organization to shape the architecture of Apple's future devices. Our team initiates and fosters deep collaboration between the SOC architecture, design, power, and software teams, to deliver world-class caches/memory system. The end goal is to provide the best customer experience in the world by enabling all the CPUs, GPUs, Machine Learning, Camera, Display, and Connectivity components on our chips to work seamlessly together.

We are seeking an upbeat and highly motivated SOC Performance Modeling SW Engineer to work on our performance models and infrastructure.

Description

You will be tasked with ensuring Apple's ability to produce high quality, timely data to drive world class hardware designs. You will collaborate with engineers across the organization to translate design space studies into well written software models. You will develop your ability to transform the hardware execution model into high-performance C++. You will be involved with the full life-cycle of performance modeling, from early architectural exploration to post-silicon correlation. Last, but not least, you'll be expected to pay close attention to the performance, maintainability, and flexibility of the simulator, making sure hardware architects can quickly iterate on experiments.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree

  • Experience in hardware architecture and design issues

  • Experience coding in C++ and Python

  • Experience with computer architecture and software engineering principles

  • Experience with data structures and algorithms

Preferred Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in CS, EE or related field

  • 10+ years of relevant experience

  • Experience with multi-paradigm software development in C++ Experience with multi-language programming environments, and selecting the right tool or language for the job

  • Experience with compiler explorer and understanding the transformations the compiler is performing on your code

  • Experience thinking about code as something that will be read by both humans and machines, and instituting conventions, structure, and documentation that make a codebase tractable for AI-assisted reasoning and navigation

  • Experience with architectural, micro-architectural performance modeling

About the Company

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Apple, Inc.

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And 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.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs