GPU Design Verification Engineer
Apple· Hardware
Hybrid (Orlando, FL)Full-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior Graphics Core Hardware Verification Engineer role in Apple’s Silicon Technologies group focused on pre-silicon RTL verification of embedded graphics cores, with cross-functional collaboration to ensure system-level validation and IP integration.
Responsibilities
- Lead teams of engineers in delivering well-verified IP.
- Collaborate with architecture, design and modeling teams to converge on design specification.
- Develop and drive verification plans, schedules and reviews.
- Architect test benches using advanced OOP, UVM and vertical reuse techniques.
- Drive techniques to detect difficult design bugs such as cross-block deadlock and livelock.
- Provide technical mentorship to early career engineers on DV methodology and conduct code reviews.
- Deploy Formal Verification techniques to complement simulation flows.
- Build automated verification flows such as ML-assisted coverage closure for graphics core verification.
- Collaborate with peer IP, SW, and top DV teams to ensure that all validation aspects are accounted for.
Qualifications
- Experience leading design verification teams.
- Cross-functional (arch, u-arch, design, DV, SW) collaboration experience to converge on design/DV requirements.
- Experience in Computer Architecture and Memory sub-system micro-architecture.
- Experience in architecting and building constrained random, coverage driven test benches.
- BS +10 years relevant experience.
- Experience mentoring early career engineers.
- Familiarity in GPU architecture and standards (OpenGL/CL, Vulcan, Metal).
- Experience with performance analysis and optimization techniques.
- Knowledge of power management techniques in GPUs.
- Familiarity with machine learning and AI processing in GPU architectures.
- Experience with Formal Verification techniques and tools such as JasperGold.
Skills
Required:Leadership of verification teamsCross-functional collaborationComputer ArchitectureConstrained random verificationFormal VerificationUVMSystemVerilog / OOP
Nice to have:GPU standardsPerformance analysis and optimizationPower management in GPUsMachine learning / AI processing in GPUs
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity.
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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