Apple
CPU Top-Level Design Verification Engineer
$129K–$195K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2025
- Education
- Minimum BS; BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering preferred.
About the job
Own verification methodology, tools, and flows for a high-performance, low-power processor design, developing tests and coverage methods to verify the design.
What you'll do
- Define verification methodology with verification engineers and RTL designers; develop test plans, test benches, and test environments.
- Write tests in assembly and C/C++, and develop tools and flows for advanced verification.
- Maintain testbench environments, develop coverage monitors, and analyze coverage against planned test cases.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS.
- Strong understanding of processor design, instruction set architectures, pipeline design, cache hierarchies, and memory systems.
- Proficiency in SystemVerilog and programming/scripting skills in C, C++, and Python.
- Experience with testbench setup, build systems, regression frameworks, failure analysis, and coverage convergence.
Nice to have
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
- Experience creating synthesizable RTL and applying timing closure, area optimization, and power-aware design techniques.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 USD base salary
Tools
SystemVerilog, C, C++, Python, assembly, RTL
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