CPU Top-Level Verification Engineer

Austin Santa Clara Until 10/6/2026 First posted August 7, 2026 Last posted August 7, 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, hard-working 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. Join us to help deliver groundbreaking Apple products! In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort interfacing with many disciplines, with a critical impact on getting high quality products to millions of customers quickly.

Description

In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort interfacing with many disciplines, with a critical impact on getting high quality products to millions of customers quickly.

Core Responsibilities:
As a CPU top-level design verification engineer owning the verification methodology, tools, and flow of a high performance lower power processor design, you will have the responsibilities as follows:

• Work closely with verification engineers and RTL designers on defining effective verification methodology for low power complex processor design.
• Develop test plans, test benches, and test environments
• Develop tests in assembly, and C/C++
• Drive and develop the tools and flows for advanced verification methodology.
• Developing, verifying, and maintaining efficient testbench environments
• Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all the test cases in the plans are covered

Minimum Qualifications

BS, or MS. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Computer Architecture
• RTL development
• Verilog or SystemVerilog
• Programming/scripting skills (C, C++, Python)
• Problem solving skill

About this role

Summary

Designs and verifies CPU chips; develops test plans, tools, and environments.

Job title

CPU Top-Level Verification Engineer

Experience level

null

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Austin or Santa Clara, on-site preferred

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

VerilogSystemVerilogCC++Python

Preferred skills

Computer ArchitectureRTL developmentprogramming/scripting

Specializations

verificationchip designlow powertest environmentcoverage analysis
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

On-site City

Santa Clara, CA, USA

On-site City