Apple
CPU Design Verification Engineer
Beaverton, Oregon · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS.
About the job
Own verification of a CPU design functionality area, ensuring its correctness through collaboration with architecture and RTL teams and development of verification plans, tests, coverage, and checkers.
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; develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage.
- Develop checkers and SystemVerilog- or C-based transactors.
What they ask for
- Experience with CPU architecture, 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; experience with post-silicon bringup.
- Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal.
Tools
C/C++, SystemVerilog, C, assembly
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