Media-IP SoC Performance Architect

**Role Number:** 200629959-0836

**Summary**

Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Are you a big-picture forward-thinking who understands how each element affects all the others? At Apple, our Architecture group is responsible for connecting our hardware and software into one unified system! Join this team, and you’ll collaborate with engineers across Apple to design how all our technologies work in unison. We are looking for a Media-IP SoC Performance Architect to join our small, dynamic team. We own the performance models of several of the complex multi-media IPs in Apple’s SoCs. These IPs are central to the customer experience in almost all of Apple’s products from Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and next generation product lines. In this highly visible role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop, verify, and use performance models for data driven architectural exploration and validation.

**Description**

As a Media-IP SoC Performance Architect, you will have responsibilities spanning all aspects of performance model development: planning model architecture, implementation, validation, performance studies, and RTL correlation.

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s degree

+ Experience in computer architecture

+ Experience in C++ software development

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ 20+ years of relevant industry experience

+ Strong understanding of SoC, fabric, and memory system architectures

+ Good understanding of QoS, arbitration, and queuing theory

+ Experience with performance model development & analysis

+ Good understanding of data analytics, statistics, and applied ML (machine learning) for analyzing large data sets

+ Strong software development and organizational skills especially with modular object-oriented SW architectures in C++, knowledge of latest STL libraries, and knowledge of Python, Lua and shell scripting languages

+ Strong problem solving and analytical skills

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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