Power Performance Modeling Architect - Platform Architecture

Apple • Beaverton, OR

14h

About The Position

As a Power Performance Modeling Architect on the Platform Architecture team at Apple, you will help develop and maintain constrained performance models that simulate the performance and efficiency of Apple SoCs under electrical, thermal, and reliability constraints and control systems. These models help engineering teams analyze and refine product architecture and implementation.

You will drive simulator development and collaborate with SoC, system, and software architects to influence the design of future Apple products. The work includes preparing and characterizing workloads, identifying opportunities to optimize product targets, modeling and optimizing power, thermal, and reliability control systems, and guiding form-factor design with system design engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• 20+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with high-performance and low-power microprocessor architecture and design techniques.
• Experience coding in C, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Ability to work with Claude to produce high-quality code with validation.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field.
• In-depth understanding of CPU, GPU, neural, and machine-learning workloads and applications.
• Good understanding of control-system applications and behavior.
• Expertise in high-performance SoC power delivery and thermals.
• Excellent modeling and simulator-development skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain performance models under constrained power and thermals.
• Identify and prepare new workloads for analysis.
• Work with architects and design teams to characterize workloads.
• Find opportunities to optimize product targets.
• Work with control engineers to model and optimize power, thermal, and reliability control systems.
• Work with system design engineers to guide the design of form factors.
• Drive development of constrained performance simulators and collaborate with SoC, system, and software architects to inform future product design.

What This Job Offers

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