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Graphics Emulation Test Bench and Infrastructure Architect

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)Full-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role within Apple's GPU Design Verification and Validation organization focusing on pre-silicon validation of GPU architectures, building emulation models, and developing test benches and infrastructure to support functional verification, performance and power analysis, and silicon validation.

Responsibilities

  • Architecting emulation and simulation test benches used by functional verification, performance analysis, and power analysis teams
  • Planning top level improvements to test benches and mentoring/directing less experienced engineers
  • Working with pre-silicon validation teams to develop and implement support plans
  • Exploring and developing new technologies and methodologies to leverage simulation, emulation, and hardware acceleration for new applications
  • Building simulation and emulation models, debugging build issues
  • Running specified tests on appropriate platforms and debugging issues by capturing waveforms and writing triggers
  • Responding to and working with vendor field service/AEs to address simulation and emulation HW/SW issues
  • Creating automated verification flows for graphics verification
  • Reporting status
  • Growth opportunities within the team with increasing technical leadership responsibilities

Qualifications

  • BS + 10 years of relevant experience
  • Experience with complex bus protocols such as PCIe and AXI
  • Experience in profiling and optimizing test bench components
  • Experience with CPU and/or GPU architecture and micro architecture
  • Experience with DPI/transactors
  • Experience in writing behavioral and synthesizable RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog)
  • Experience with programming in one or more of the following languages: C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in the area of test benches, emulation, and/or simulation
  • Excellent planning, collaboration, and communication abilities
  • Demonstrated ability to build emulation models, run tests on emulation machines, and debug issues in a schedule-oriented silicon design project with competing priorities
  • Ability to debug hardware issues from waveforms
  • Ability to interface emulation hardware with virtual systems, simulation environment, and silicon validation
  • Graphics knowledge; 3D graphics pipeline, OGL/OCL programming
  • Ability to collaborate under tight schedules

Skills

Required:Test bench architectureEmulation/SimulationWaveform analysisRTL SystemVerilog/VerilogProgramming languages (C/C++, Python, Perl, Ruby)
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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