Apple
Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer
$175K–$325K
San Diego, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Sunnyvale, California - Experience
- Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience; several tapeout cycles of sophisticated designs.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Verifies WiFi PHY digital subsystems and develops verification strategies and testbenches to support first-time-right wireless silicon.
What you'll do
- Develop UVM environments, bus functional models, assertions, and infrastructure for DSP subsystems and IEEE 802.11 protocols.
- Own subsystem verification from test planning and environment bring-up through feature and coverage closure.
- Build constrained-random scenarios and use coverage, issue tracking, and metrics to identify verification gaps.
What they ask for
- BS degree and at least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Track record of several tapeout cycles of sophisticated designs.
- Experience verifying wireless, DSP, or digital communication systems.
- Knowledge of ASIC verification flows using SystemVerilog / UVM, including testbench architecture, constrained-random testing, functional coverage, and assertion-based verification.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, Cellular, or similar communication systems.
- Experience integrating system models using DPIs, DSP algorithm verification, or transaction-level modeling.
Pay
$175,000 to $308,500 USD base salary; $184,700 to $324,800 USD base salary
Tools
UVM, IEEE 802.11, SystemVerilog, DPIs, DSP
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