Apple
CPU Debug and Power Management Verification Engineer
Beaverton, Oregon · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Education
- BS
About the job
Verify auxiliary features of an ARM-based CPU, including power management, clock control, debug, resets, and special-purpose registers, across pre-silicon design and post-silicon bring-up.
What you'll do
- Develop test plans and write, debug, and execute tests in simulation, emulation, FPGA, and silicon environments.
- Build verification infrastructure and analyze functional coverage; identify and root-cause design issues with RTL teams.
- Collaborate across CPU, SoC, architecture, RTL, and bring-up teams, including support for clock and power integration debug.
What they ask for
- BS degree
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Programming skills in Perl/Python or SystemVerilog
Nice to have
- Experience in processor or power management architecture and verification
- Experience with AXI, random-constraint verification, UVM, SVA, silicon bring-up, UPF, low-power simulation, processor debug, formal verification, object-oriented programming, or CPU assembly
Tools
ARM, Assembly, SystemVerilog, SVA, C++, Perl, Python, AXI
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