Graphics Power Analysis & Optimization Engineer

Graphics Power Analysis & Optimization Engineer

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC)! You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you'll be crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, we enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices! We are looking for a talented and creative engineer to support the power activity of Apple best-in-class GPU development.

For this role, the candidate must have strong analytical skills and background in power, micro-architecture and scripting to support the following activities on GPU designs:

• Create early power estimation, power targets and perform what-if analysis at architectural evaluation stage.
• Support RTL and gate-level power rollup and analysis.
• Analyze various GPU workloads to identify power reduction opportunities.
• Evaluate and implement power optimizations in both RTL and gates.
• Identify the best power sign-off tests to improve power analysis coverage.
• Develop flows & heuristics to accelerate power triage on large power data sets.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with low power microarchitecture and implementation.
• Experience with scripting in Python.
• Experience with PowerArtist and/or PTPX.
• BS degree and minimum of 3+ years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in writing, simulating and debugging RTL designs.
• Knowledge of digital logic design principles including power and timing implications.
• Knowledge in GPU pipeline.
• Excellent communication skills, self-motivated and organized.

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.