Apple
CPU Silicon Validation Engineer
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- 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, and debugging functional failures.
What you'll do
- Create CPU validation plans and test content for new features, and develop workloads to stress the CPU.
- Maintain and improve random test generators to support CPU architectural and microarchitectural features.
- Bring up and run validation tools on pre-silicon FPGAs and post-silicon development boards, and debug functional failures.
What they ask for
- Experience with CPU architecture.
- Programming experience in C or C++ and scripting in Python or Perl.
Nice to have
- Assembly programming experience (ARM ISA is a plus), operating system fundamentals, and understanding of logic design and verification.
- Silicon bring-up and system debug experience.
Pay
$150,400 to $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Python, Perl, ARM ISA
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative