Apple
CPU Silicon Validation Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Nov 10, 2025
- Education
- Minimum BS; preferred BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
About the job
Validates Apple CPU designs by developing test content and workloads, bringing up silicon validation tools, and debugging functional failures.
What you'll do
- Create CPU validation test plans and develop test cases and software workloads for new CPU features.
- Maintain and improve random test generators to cover CPU architectural and microarchitectural features.
- Bring up and run validation tools on pre-silicon FPGAs and post-silicon development boards; debug functional failures with Design and DV teams.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
- Academic coursework in CPU architecture.
- Programming experience in C or C++ and scripting experience in Python or Perl.
Nice to have
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
- CPU architecture knowledge; assembly programming, OS fundamentals, logic design and verification, or silicon bring-up and system debugging experience.
Tools
C, C++, Python, Perl, ARM ISA, FPGAs
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