CPU Design Verification Engineer

Austin Until 9/22/2026 10+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, intelligent people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Do you want join us in these pursuits? Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.

Description

As a CPU Design Verification Engineer owning the verification of a certain area of functionality in a CPU design, you will have the responsibilities as follows:

• Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functional correctness of the design
• Develop test plans and test environments
• Develop tests in assembly, C, or vectors according to test plans
• Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the plans are covered
• Develop checkers and SystemVerilog or C-base transactors to verify the design

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Experience with CPU architecture
Experience in digital logic design, chip architecture, and microarchitecture
Experience with developing testplans/testbenches, C-based transactors, and writing/debugging tests
Programming knowledge in C/C++ or SystemVerilog

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
Operating system knowledge
Experience in post-silicon bringup
Experience with advanced verification techniques
Should be a great teammate with excellent communication skills and be able to work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design

About this role

Summary

Verify CPU design functionality through test plans, code, and coverage analysis at Apple.

Job title

CPU Design Verification Engineer

Experience level

10+ years

Minimum experience

10+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Must be in Austin, hybrid work possible

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C/C++SystemVerilogtest plansverificationcoverage analysis

Preferred skills

electrical engineeringcomputer engineeringoperating systemspost-siliconverification techniques

Specializations

CPUverificationchip architecturemicroarchitectureSystemVerilog
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

Hybrid City