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Apple

CPU Design Verification Engineer

Beaverton, Oregon · Full-time · Posted Dec 9, 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 components.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with architecture and RTL designers to verify functional correctness; develop test plans and test environments.
  • Write tests in assembly, C, or vectors, and develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage.
  • Develop checkers and SystemVerilog- or C-based transactors.

What they ask for

  • Experience with CPU architecture and digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture.
  • Programming experience in C/C++ or SystemVerilog.
  • Experience developing test plans/testbenches and C-based transactors, and writing and debugging tests.

Nice to have

  • Operating system knowledge and experience with post-silicon bringup.
  • Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal.

Tools

C/C++, SystemVerilog, assembly, C

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