Apple
CPU Top-Level Design Verification Engineer
$150K–$278K
Santa Clara, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- 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, developing tests and testbench environments and driving coverage toward verification closure.
What you'll do
- Define verification methodology with verification engineers and RTL designers; develop test plans, test benches, and test environments.
- Develop tests in assembly and C/C++, and build tools and flows for advanced verification.
- Maintain testbench environments, develop coverage monitors, and analyze coverage against test plans.
What they ask for
- Minimum BS degree.
- At least 3 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Preferred degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering; experience with processor architecture, RTL, SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python, and verification infrastructure.
- Strong problem-solving, coverage-convergence, failure-analysis, and communication skills; ability to work as a teammate.
Pay
USD $150,400 to $277,600 base salary
Tools
assembly, C/C++, SystemVerilog, Python, RTL
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