SoC QoSFabric Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture

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 theres no telling what you could accomplish!nnIn this role you will be a member of the Platform Architecture team working with hardware and software engineering groups to shape the architecture of Apples future System-on-Chips (SoC). We are seeking an energetic and highly motivated SoC performance engineer to drive development of our on-chip communication interconnect and memory Quality-of-Service features.

You will help create a full-chip C simulator for iPhone/iPad/Mac/Watch SoCs. You will model new emerging workloads such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Machine Learning (ML). You will use these models to study a range of performance and power trade-offs in our SoCs. Your work will be highly visible and critical for driving architecture improvements in Apples future products.

Learning about the state of the art in SoC IP and chip-level architecture including network-on-chipnC modeling of graphics camera and ML dataflow network-on-chip and integration with other SoC models nRunning performance simulation of future applications nCareful analysis and presentation of simulation results nTuning and validating future SoC HW/SW for the best user experiencenCollaboration with cross-functional modeling hardware and software teams nSome international travel is required for this position

BS degreenC programming experiencenCoursework and/or experience in computer architecture and the HW/SW stacknCoursework and/or experience with performance modeling and debugging

10 years of relevant experiencenExamples of substantial HW or SW projects brought to completionnCoursework and/or practical experience with scripting for automation and data visualizationnCoursework and/or practical experience with network-on-chip architecture and design is a big plusnAbility to study a problem in depth design experiments analyze data and present resultsnExperience with Cellular/5G modem architecturenCommunication and documentation skills