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CPU Debug and Power Management Verification Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Beaverton, ORFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Design Verification Engineer focused on auxiliary features of a high-performance ARM-based CPU, including Power Management, Clock Control, Debug Infrastructure, Resets, and Special-Purpose Registers. Role spans pre-silicon test planning to post-silicon bring-up and debug, collaborating across CPU and SoC teams to deliver robust, low-power, high-performance CPU designs.

Responsibilities

  • Work across the entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon test planning to supporting post-silicon bring-up and debug when needed
  • Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of CPU Power Management, clock control, and debug logic
  • Develop and execute test plans and schedules
  • Write and debug tests in Assembly, SystemVerilog, SVA, C++, and scripting languages to validate functionality in simulation, emulation, and FPGA environments
  • Build and maintain verification infrastructure, including checkers, transactors, and coverage monitors
  • Analyze functional coverage to ensure test plan completeness
  • Identify, root-cause, and document design issues and collaborate with RTL teams to drive fixes
  • Support SoC-level debug for clock and power integration issues
  • Work with silicon bring-up teams to develop tests and debug issues across emulation, FPGA, and silicon
  • Contribute to post-silicon debug, using waveform and trace tools to diagnose complex system issues.

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Programming skills in Perl/Python or SystemVerilog
  • Experience in processor or power management architecture and verification
  • Experience with system fabric protocols such as AXI
  • In-depth knowledge in design verification environments like random constraint verification and/or UVM base testbenches
  • Experience in system Verilog assertions or silicon bringup or UPF and low power simulation
  • Experience in processor debug features including hardware trace is a plus
  • Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal verification is a plus
  • Advanced programming skills such as object orientated programming or CPU assembly language is a plus
  • Should be an extraordinary teammate with excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex design issues during verification effort
  • Be able to create and follow detailed work schedules and work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design

Skills

Required:BS degree or higher in a related fieldPerl / Python or SystemVerilogProcessor or power management architecture and verificationAXIRandom constraint verification / UVMSystemVerilog assertions / UPF / low power simulationCommunication and collaborationIndependent work and scheduling
Nice to have:Hardware trace / processor debug featuresFormal verificationObject-oriented programming or CPU assembly language
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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