Neural Engine Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture

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Salary

$147K-$272K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

80% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Neural Engine Performance Engineer, Platform Architecture Cupertino, United States of America 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. In this role, you will be part of the Neural Engine IP architecture team and work to improve the performance of the Neural Engine IP through SW optimizations and HW architectural enhancements. As a Neural Engine Performance Engineer, you will be responsible for analyzing, debugging and optimizing the performance of the Neural Engine. Prototyping performant and flexible programming models for the Neural Engine. Defining and implementing performance studies to identify performance bottlenecks in the Neural Engine HW and SW. Developing and maintaining tools for performance profiling. Minimum Qualifications: BS degree Experience with C++ and Python Experience with performance profiling of HW or SW Experience in at least one hardware IP: ML HW accelerators or processing units such as GPUs, ISPs, Video CODECs, CPUs, or similar Preferred Qualifications: MS or PhD degree 3+ years of software experience Experience writing low level software interfaces to hardware Experience debugging complex system level performance issues Experience writing automation software for data collection and analysis Understanding of OS scheduling and memory management Understanding of ML workloads and deployment for inference Understanding of SoC cache hierarchy and its performance implications

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