Design Verification Engineer for Cellular Baseband (m/f/d)
Apple· Hardware
Hybrid (Munich)Full-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Design Verification Engineer focused on verification of high-throughput cellular baseband modems and transceiver link controllers for Apple’s SOCs. Responsible for developing reusable UVM environments, coverage-driven testing, and collaborating across multi-functional teams to ensure tape-out readiness and high-quality verification of complex IP and subsystems.
Responsibilities
- Construct detailed test plans for various components of the design including use cases, through collaborative work with multi-functional teams.
- Create coverage driven verification plans from specifications, review and refine to achieve coverage targets.
- Architect UVM-based, reusable test benches with components for stimulus, checkers, VIPs and reference models.
- Leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance verification processes, delivering improvements in efficiency and quality.
- Design and implement ML-driven workflows that increase team productivity and overall quality of verification.
- Implement test plans from RTL simulation bring-up to sign-off; report and debug failures.
- Maintain regressions and report the verification progress against test plans and coverage metrics.
Qualifications
- BSc, MSc. or higher degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science, Embedded Engineering or similar
- Experience in C/C++ modeling for design verification.
- Knowledge of 4G/5G cellular physical layer operation (3GPP).
- Experience with verification of embedded processor cores.
- Hands-on verification experience of Bus Fabric, NOC, AHB, AXI, based bus architecture in UVM environment.
- Knowledge of using LLMs to improve efficiency and quality of verification.
- Understanding of prompt engineering and LLM workflow optimization.
Skills
Required:SystemVerilogUVMSystemC, C/C++, Python/PerlDV MethodologiesLLMs in verificationPython-based automationConstraint random testing, SVA, Coverage driven verificationTest planning and problem-solving
Benefits
- Not specified directly in description, but Apple benefits applicable to role (not included as placeholder).
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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