PA SOC Architecture Performance Validation Engineer

Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, amazing people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unparalleled and phenomenal opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and support millions of Apple's customers every single day.

In this role, you will be a member of the Platform Architecture team, working within the hardware technology group to shape the architecture of Apple's future System-on-Chips (SoC). We are seeking an upbeat and highly motivated SOC performance engineer to drive the architectural validation and design correlation of our software-based performance model.

Key Qualifications
- Knowledge of computer architecture

- Practical experience with data structures and algorithms

- Understanding of software engineering principles

- Solid programming skills in C, C++ or equivalent languages

- Experience with scripting languages like Python, Perl, Lua, Bash

- Ability to study a problem in depth, design experiments, analyze data, and present results

Description
You will help define the comprehensive performance test plan, systematic test methodology, and develop novel infrastructure for the software simulator for iPhone/iPad/Mac/Watch SoCs. The team pushes the system to its limits to help find and fix architectural and micro-architectural issues. Your data shall contribute to product performance and power trade-off decisions in our SoCs. This role will be highly visible and critical for driving architecture improvements in Apple's future products.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Learning about the state of the art in SoC IP and chip-level architecture

- Defining test plans and test planning methodology

- Definition and implementation of validation infrastructure like performance monitors, behavioral checkers, state space coverage

- Working on data analysis pipelines, visualization methodologies, continuous regression testing

- Running performance simulation of future applications

- Careful analysis and presentation of simulation results

- Tuning and validating future SoC HW/SW for the best user experience

- Interface and collaboration with cross-functional teams: architecture, hardware and software teams for collaborative debug, and correlation studies

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