Neural Engine Hardware Engineer, Platform Architecture
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Hardware
At Apple, Platform Architecture 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 of our technologies work in unison. We are looking for a Neural Engine HW Engineer who will help us build future hardware platforms for intelligent mobile devices.
Description
In this highly visible role, you’ll work with other architects building the next-generation Neural Engine—a custom HW engine behind iOS CoreML framework. You’ll work with SW/applications teams on driving future requirements on machine learning/computer vision applications, prototype them in C++/Python, write architecture spec, and work with SW/HW design teams for SW/HW implementation.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree
- Experience writing machine learning algorithms, such as convolutional neural network, Transformer and their applications in LLM and image/video processing
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in compilers—scheduling, register allocation, etc
- Programming skills in C++/C and Python
- Knowledge in image processing, camera pipeline, computational photography and natural language processing
- Communication skills and ability to work across various groups
- Understanding of system implications of aforementioned algorithms in terms of performance and power on a given HW architecture
- Experience with analyzing ML workloads on different HW architectures—profiling and identifying the performance bottleneck in the system and coming up with suggestions for performance improvement either at algorithm, at SW or HW level
- MS or PhD degree
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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