Performance Modeling Software Architect, Platform Architecture

Apple • Orlando, FL

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About The Position

Join Apple’s Hardware Technologies organization as a member of the system-on-chip (SoC) performance team, helping shape the architecture of future Apple devices. The team collaborates across SoC architecture, design, power, and software to develop world-class cache and memory systems that enable CPUs, GPUs, machine-learning, camera, display, and connectivity components to work together seamlessly.

You will help ensure Apple can produce high-quality, timely data to guide hardware design. Working with engineers across the organization, you will translate design-space studies into software models and transform hardware execution models into high-performance C++. The role covers the full performance-modeling lifecycle, from early architectural exploration through post-silicon correlation. You will also focus on simulator performance, maintainability, and flexibility so hardware architects can iterate quickly on experiments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with hardware architecture and design issues.
• Experience coding in C++ and Python and binding C++ to other languages.
• Experience with computer architecture and software engineering principles.
• Experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience using software models to collect behavioral characteristics and transforming that data into compelling performance analysis.

Nice To Haves

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 20+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with multi-paradigm software development in C++.
• Experience with multi-language programming environments and selecting the right tool or language for the job.
• Experience with Compiler Explorer and understanding the transformations the compiler performs on code.
• Experience designing code and establishing conventions, structure, and documentation that make a codebase tractable for human readers and AI-assisted reasoning and navigation.
• Experience with architectural and microarchitectural performance modeling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers across the organization to translate design-space studies into software models.
• Transform hardware execution models into high-performance C++.
• Contribute to the full lifecycle of performance modeling, from early architectural exploration through post-silicon correlation.
• Ensure performance models and infrastructure produce high-quality, timely data to guide hardware design.
• Maintain and improve simulator performance, maintainability, and flexibility so hardware architects can quickly iterate on experiments.
• Use software models to collect behavioral characteristics and turn the resulting data into performance analysis.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior