Performance and Modeling Engineer

Apple • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Apple Inc. is hiring a Performance and Modeling Engineer in Austin, Texas. The role focuses on GPU performance validation and improvement, including developing performance test plans, analyzing performance issues to identify hardware and software problems, and proposing hardware solutions. The engineer will also develop tools to measure, communicate, and improve GPU performance, and validate the functionality and quantify the performance benefits of features and algorithms implemented in hardware and software. The position is 40 hours per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience developing performance and profiling tools to analyze hardware performance and bottlenecks.
• Experience triaging and analyzing performance issues on novel high-performance hardware.
• Experience correlating and developing on both RTL hardware design and C++ software simulators.
• Experience analyzing modern benchmarks and real-life workloads for hardware optimizations.
• Knowledge of computer graphics, graphics programming, modern graphics techniques, and ray tracing.
• Experience developing data analysis and visualization code with Python.
• Knowledge of high-performance computer architecture.
• Experience programming and debugging System Verilog or Verilog.
• Knowledge of compilers, operating systems, and software interactions with hardware.
• Ability to communicate efficiently, design detailed reports, and present findings.

Responsibilities

• Develop performance test plans to validate GPU performance.
• Analyze performance issues to identify hardware and software problems.
• Propose hardware solutions to improve GPU performance.
• Develop tools for the efficient measurement, communication, and improvement of GPU performance.
• Validate the functionality and quantify the performance benefit of features and algorithms implemented in hardware and software.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time