Apple
CPU Design Verification Engineer
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2025
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Own verification of a CPU design area, ensuring functional correctness through test plans, tests, coverage analysis, and verification tools.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with architecture and RTL designers to verify design functionality.
- Develop test plans and test environments, and write complex tests in assembly, C, or vectors.
- Develop coverage monitors, analyze coverage, and build checkers or C-based transactors.
What they ask for
- Knowledge of digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture.
- Experience developing test plans/testbenches and C-based transactors, and writing/debugging assembly-based tests.
- Experience with C/C++ programming and Verilog.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions.
- Understanding of the silicon bring-up process.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary range)
Tools
assembly, C, vectors, C/C++, Verilog
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