Soc Performance Validation Engineer, Platform Architecture

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