Apple
CPU Design Verification Engineer
$129K–$195K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Own verification of a CPU design area, collaborating with architecture and RTL teams to confirm functionality and support delivery of working chips.
What you'll do
- Develop and lead test plans and test environments; create assembly, C, or vector tests.
- Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage against test plans.
- Develop checkers or C-based transactors to verify the design.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
- Academic experience in digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture.
- Experience with C/C++ programming and Verilog.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of formal verification and assertions; understanding of silicon bring-up.
- Experience developing test plans/testbenches and C-based transactors, and writing or debugging assembly-based tests.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 (base salary range)
Tools
C/C++, Verilog, assembly, C, vectors
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