Apple
Silicon Validation/Emulation Design Engineer
$185K–$325K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Build, maintain, debug, and optimize Palladium emulation environments to support pre-silicon validation and integration of Wireless SoCs and subsystems.
What you'll do
- Own emulation build flows and support system-level and IP-level hardware debug and validation.
- Develop automation, reusable debug methods, and documentation to improve emulation efficiency.
- Optimize emulation performance and collaborate across teams to meet program milestones and support prototype hardware validation.
What they ask for
- BS degree
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience
Nice to have
- Experience with Cadence Palladium or equivalent emulation platforms, including build flows, compile optimization, and platform bring-up.
- Experience with Wireless SoC applications (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular).
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
Cadence Palladium, Synopsys ZeBu, Python, Tcl, Perl, Shell, Git, Perforce
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