Apple
CPU Design Verification Engineer
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Own verification of a CPU design area, ensuring functionality is correct through test planning, test development, and coverage analysis.
What you'll do
- Work with architecture and RTL designers to verify design functionality.
- Develop test plans, test environments, complex tests, coverage monitors, and checkers or C-based transactors.
- Analyze coverage to confirm planned test cases are covered.
What they ask for
- Experience in 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 formal verification and assertions.
- Understanding of the silicon bring-up process.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary range)
Tools
C, C++, Verilog, assembly
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