GPU Silicon Prototype Engineer

Do your life's best work here - with the whole world watching. At Apple, new ideas and complex challenges have a remarkable ability to transform into excellent products, services, and customer experiences in a relatively short period.

Join Apple's GPU team and contribute to the creation of graphics processing technology that powers millions of devices worldwide. As part of our growing team, you'll work on pre-silicon validation of innovative GPU microarchitectures, spanning from mobile devices to high-performance computers. Your role will involve exploring the intricate architectural details that drive exceptional graphics performance. Together, we'll empower our customers to enjoy all the features they love on their devices!

Description

As a Silicon Prototype Engineer in Apple's GPU Design Verification and Validation organization, you'll ensure our complex GPU designs and software meet Apple's quality standards through comprehensive hardware/software platform testing. Working with the complete software stack, you'll validate designs that enable flawless execution of demanding graphics workloads.

Your technical contributions will include:

Developing verification environments using SystemVerilog, C++, and scripting languages to validate GPU functional behavior, performance, and power characteristics

Running development graphics driver and test applications on development hardware systems, triaging failures to their respective teams

Building automated systems for GPU model deployment and testing on hardware platforms

Creating and driving detailed verification plans in collaboration with multi-functional teams

Working closely with power and performance validation teams to optimize designs

Leading debug efforts for issues discovered in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases

This role offers significant growth opportunities as you advance within the team and take on increasing technical leadership responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Experience scripting for system automation

Ability to collaborate under tight schedules

Excellent planning, collaboration, and communication abilities

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Coursework or experience in computer architecture

Coursework or experience in SystemVerilog and C/C++

Coursework or experience with scripting