Apple
Design Verification Engineer
$175K–$325K
San Diego, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Sunnyvale, California - Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS; MSEE preferred.
About the job
Develop and verify C-based tests and power vectors for wireless SoCs, collaborating across engineering teams to validate functionality and support power analysis.
What you'll do
- Define power-vector tests with architecture and RTL power designers; verify Wireless SoC functionality.
- Develop test plans, environments, and complex protocol power-vector tests in C, assembly, or UVM; execute plans and conduct reviews.
- Collaborate with Design, Architecture, Power, Silicon Validation, Performance, and SW teams.
What they ask for
- BS degree and relevant industry experience.
- Experience with C/C++/assembly programming and Verilog/SystemVerilog.
- Understand C compilation flow and makefiles; demonstrate verification skills in problem solving, constrained-random testing, debugging, and reusable verification frameworks.
- Knowledge of digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture; ability to develop complex assembly or C tests/power vectors.
Nice to have
- MSEE; knowledge of industry-standard interfaces or ARM V7/V8 architecture.
- Experience with UVM/System TB and embedded C tests, Python or other scripting languages, UVM DV, emulation test porting, or wireless protocols.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (USD, base salary); $184,700 and $324,800 (USD, base salary)
Tools
C, C++, assembly, Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM, Python, makefile
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