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Power, Performance and Thermal Architect - Platform Architecture

Apple Oakbrook

Role Number: 200650181-0836

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there’s no telling what we can accomplish together. Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Can you intrinsically see the important of every detail?

The Platform Architecture Power, Performance and Thermal team enables Apple Silicon to deliver a great user experience while operating under physical limits. Our hardware and software innovations are at the heart of every Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac. We're looking for an experienced architect to help us expand our capabilities to new and exciting domains.

Description

You will play a key role in taking Apple's SoC performance and efficiency architecture to a whole new level. Working at the intersection of hardware and software, you will influence a wide spectrum of features across Apple's product lineup.

Minimum Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar engineering degree.

  • Experience with computer architecture.

  • Experience with power management.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • M.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar engineering degree.

  • 20+ years of relevant industry experience.

  • Experience with software performance analysis and optimization.

  • Experience with operating system implementation.

  • Experience with power delivery control, thermal management and workload scheduling at scale.

  • Experience with machine learning workloads.

Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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