Apple
CPU Design Verification Engineer
$129K–$195K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2025
- Education
- Minimum BS
About the job
Owns verification of a CPU design area by planning and developing tests, environments, coverage, and checkers to confirm functional correctness.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with architecture and RTL designers to verify design functionality; develop and lead test plans and test environments.
- Write complex tests in assembly, C, or vectors; develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage.
- Develop checkers or C-base transactor 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 advanced verification techniques such as formal and assertions; understanding of silicon bring-up process.
- Experience developing testplans/testbenches and C-based transactors, and writing/debugging assembly-based tests.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, Verilog, assembly, C
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