Apple
CPU Processor Power Management Verification Engineer
$185K–$325K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2025
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Minimum BS; Master’s degree preferred.
About the job
Verifies CPU power management and clock control logic through test development, simulation, emulation, formal verification, and silicon debug.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute verification test plans, tests, coverage monitors, checkers, and assertions.
- Root-cause failures and collaborate with architecture, RTL design, and silicon bringup teams on solutions and debug.
- Support testing in simulation, emulation, and FPGA environments, and apply formal verification.
What they ask for
- Experience in digital logic, microprocessor architecture, or power management architecture.
- Digital design verification experience with Verilog/System-Verilog testbenches and transactors/checkers.
- Experience with random-constraint verification or UVM-based testbenches.
- Programming skills in Perl or Python.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree; in-depth power management architecture knowledge; experience with assertions, silicon bringup, UPF, low-power simulation, or formal verification.
- Advanced programming skills, including object-oriented programming or CPU assembly language.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Assembly, Scripts, System Verilog, Verilog, Perl, Python, UVM, UPF
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