Cupertino, California, United States Hardware
Description
The Systems Performance Architect will collaborate with Architects to guide hardware performance analysis and modeling across Apple’s products and investigate performance and power characteristics of new workloads involving ML, gaming and professional content creation. In this highly collaborative and multi-functional role, you will be at the center of multiple efforts to accelerate and optimize future HW and the SW that drives it. We are looking for someone that is familiar with CPU, GPU and ML architectures and is passionate about identifying and optimizing performance bottlenecks.
Responsibilities
- Guiding architecture tradeoff decisions at an executive level
- Interacting with various multi-functional teams to understand, model, and guide development.
- Collaborating with creative professionals to develop new workflows that drive future architecture and product decisions.
- Working with kernel-level and high level software features including working with 3rd party developers.
- Collecting the findings from investigations and collaborating with SoC, HW, and SW architecture teams to provide insight for future silicon and products.
- Generating performance projections for future systems
Minimum Qualifications
- MS Degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent years of experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience with system level performance spanning hardware (CPU, GPU, DRAM, storage), software (OS, drivers, applications)
Preferred Qualifications
- Solid understanding and experience in computer architecture
- Strong and proven software development and performance analysis skills
- Experience with performance on low level software and computer architecture.
- Passion for software architecture, APIs and high-performance extensible software
- Experience with system level performance spanning hardware (CPU, GPU, DRAM, storage), software (OS, drivers, applications), and other system characteristics (thermals, power, acoustics) is a plus.
- Understanding of machine learning fundamentals
- Understanding of GPU programming fundamentals using Metal, Vulkan or DirectX 12
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
- Strong communication and mentoring skills
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.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .
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