About the role

What will you do at Apple?

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! 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 multifaceted group, you will have the unique and phenomenal

opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of

Apple's customers every single day.

DESCRIPTION

Platform Architecture is looking for a Performance Control Software Engineer to

measure, analyze and control the relationship between power and performance in

Apple’s most advanced systems. In this position, you will study the execution of

workloads on Apple silicon across all Apple platforms and leverage that

understanding to invent new operating system performance control features. You

will design and conduct performance experiments, create instrumentation and data

visualizations, prototype innovative in-kernel performance control algorithms,

collaborate with teams ranging from the core operating system through

user-facing applications, and productize the software that controls the

performance of every workload executed on hundreds of millions of Apple products

around the world.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

BS in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering or similar

engineering degree. Experience with operating system design and implementation.

Kernel software development experience in C or C++.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience. MS in Computer Science or

Electrical and Computer Engineering or similar engineering degree. Knowledge of

computer architecture and hardware performance monitoring instrumentation.

Userland software development experience in environments such as C, C++, Swift

or Python.

Which skills does this role require?

Operating system designKernel developmentC++Performance analysisWorkload executionPlatform architectureData visualizationAlgorithm designSystem optimizationPerformance ControlSoftware EngineerPlatform ArchitectureApple SiliconOperating SystemKernelData VisualizationAlgorithm DesignWorkload AnalysisPower ManagementSystem OptimizationPrototyping

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