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CPU Design Verification Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Beaverton, ORFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

In a highly visible CPU design verification role, you will verify a specific area of functionality in a CPU design, collaborating with architecture and RTL teams to ensure functional correctness, develop test plans and environments, create tests and coverage, and build checkers and transactors.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functional correctness of the design
  • Develop test plans and test environments
  • Develop 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 and SystemVerilog or C-base transactors to verify the design

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with CPU architecture
  • Experience with digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture
  • Programming experience in C/C++ or SystemVerilog
  • Experience with developing testplans/testbenches, C-based transactors, and writing/debugging tests
  • Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
  • Operating system knowledge
  • Experience in post-silicon bringup
  • Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal
  • 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:CPU architecturedigital logic designC/C++SystemVerilog
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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