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CPU Design Verification Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Santa Clara$181.1k - $318.4kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

CPU Verification Engineer owning the verification of a certain area of functionality in a CPU design, collaborating with architecture and RTL teams to ensure functional correctness, develop test plans and environments, create complex tests, and drive coverage and verification checkers.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of the design
  • Develop and lead test plan and test environments
  • Develop complex tests in assembly, C, or vectors according to test plans
  • Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the plans are covered
  • Develop checkers or C-base transactor to verify the design

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Knowledge of digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture
  • Experience with the development of testplans/testbenches, C-based transactors, and writing/debugging assembly-based tests
  • Experience with C/C++ programming and Verilog
  • Knowledge of advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions
  • Understanding of silicon bring-up process
  • Should be a great teammate with excellent communication skills and be able to work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design

Skills

Required:Test plan developmentTestbench developmentAssembly programmingC/C++ programmingVerilog
Nice to have:Formal verification

Benefits

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

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