# CPU Microarchitect / RTL Design Engineer

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas 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, hard-working 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 commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products! Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group (SEG) designs high-performance, low power microprocessors that power our innovative products, including the iPhone, iPad, Watch, Vision Pro, and Mac. We are looking for an experienced technical leader and manager to drive microarchitecture and RTL development in multiple areas of our performant cores, leading the CPU RTL team at this growing site. Description As a CPU microarchitect/RTL Engineer, you will own or participate in the following: Microarchitecture development and specification - from early high-level architectur

- **Id**: 4317587
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-cpu-microarchitect-rtl-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T13:48:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T16:56:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

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- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

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- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 607
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 149
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Perl** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes
- **VHDL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T16:49:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

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- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
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- **P room**: 1
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- **Expected fill days**: 149
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T18:44:16Z

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