Apple
CPU Silicon Validation Engineer
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Nov 10, 2025
- Experience
- 10+ 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 validation tools, and debugging functional failures.
What you'll do
- Create CPU validation test plans and develop test content and software workloads for CPU features.
- Maintain and improve random test generators and integrate workloads into validation environments.
- Bring up and run validation tools on FPGAs and development boards, and debug silicon failures with Design and DV teams.
What they ask for
- CPU architecture experience.
- Programming experience in C or C++ and scripting in Python or Perl.
- Minimum BS degree.
Nice to have
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
- Experience with assembly programming, silicon bring-up, or system debug.
Tools
C, C++, Python, Perl, ARM ISA
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