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Formal Verification Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Cupertino, California)$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Formal Verification engineer responsible for complete formal verification across multiple design blocks and IPs within Apple’s Silicon Technologies group, collaborating with design teams to prove properties, model security attacks, and build reusable verification models for SoC components such as CPU, Cellular/Connectivity IP, Audio/Image Processing IP, Neural Networks IP, and more.

Responsibilities

  • Working with Apple Silicon's world-class Security Enclave design engineers to develop a formal micro-architecture specification

Qualifications

  • Minimum of a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field.
  • Hands on experience with VLSI and digital logic design and verification techniques or formal methods and their application to hardware, software, or systems
  • Interest in learning and becoming an expert in SoC, CPU, GPU, or Cellular designs.
  • Detail oriented approach and desire to overcome challenges
  • Formal Method or Formal Verification technologies knowledge is a plus
  • Knowledge and experience in interpreting hardware specifications.
  • Temporal logic assertion-based languages such as SVA or PSL.
  • Experience in using EDA formal tools and tool development experience is plus.
  • Proficiency in any scripting language with excellent debugging skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Passionate about developing world-class/innovative formal verification solutions.
  • Exposure to CPU instruction-set architectures, memory consistency or cache coherence principles

Skills

Required:Formal verificationSecurity verificationSVA/PSL

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through discretionary employee stock programs
  • eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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