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CPU Silicon Validation Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Santa Clara, CA$126.8k - $190.9kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role focused on functional validation of Apple CPUs, developing test content, validating CPU designs, and spearheading silicon bring-up efforts across pre- and post-silicon stages.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with CPU RTL and DV teams to understand changes to our CPU designs and to engineer test content for new CPU features
  • Create CPU validation test plans, ensuring all key features are covered
  • Develop SW workloads to stress test the CPU and integrate these into our existing validation environments
  • Help maintain and improve our random test generator by adding support for new CPU architectural and microarchitectural features
  • Drive the bring-up and execution of our silicon validation tools in pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards)
  • Debug functional silicon failures closely with Design and DV counterparts

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
  • Understanding of CPU architecture including instruction sets, pipelines, caches, and memory subsystems
  • Experience with assembly programming (ARM ISA is a plus)
  • Knowledge of operating system fundamentals including kernel execution, privilege levels, memory management, and virtual machines
  • Good understanding of the logic design and verification process
  • Background in silicon bring-up and system debug experience is a plus
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Minimum BS Academic coursework in CPU architecture
  • Experience in programming in C or C++ and scripting in Python or Perl

Skills

Required:CPU validationC/C++ programmingPython or Perl scriptingTest content generationOS fundamentalsDebugging silicon issues
Nice to have:Pre-silicon and post-silicon bring-upAssembly programming (ARM ISA)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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