Apple

CPU Debug and Power Management Verification Engineer

Apple$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field; 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong programming skills in Perl, Python, or SystemVerilog
  • Experience with processor or power management architecture and verification
  • Proficient in system fabric protocols like AXI
  • Knowledgeable in advanced design verification environments like UVM and constraint verification

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate across the product lifecycle from pre-silicon planning to post-silicon debugging
  • Verify functionality of CPU Power Management, clock control, and debug logic with design teams
  • Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and schedules
  • Write and debug verification tests in various programming languages for simulations and emulations
  • Build and maintain verification tools including checkers and coverage monitors
  • Analyze and ensure completeness of functional coverage for test plans
  • Support debug efforts at the SoC level regarding clock and power integration issues

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge ARM-based CPU designs
  • Cross-functional collaboration with CPU and SoC teams
  • Engagement in the full product lifecycle from design to post-silicon support
  • Growth potential within a highly visible role
  • Contributing impact to products used by millions of customers
Full Job Description
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.

We are seeking a highly motivated Design Verification Engineer to join our silicon engineering team focused on the auxiliary features of a high-performance ARM-based CPU. These features include Power Management, Clock Control, Debug Infrastructure, Resets, and Special-Purpose Registers-spanning both ARM-standard capabilities and Apple-specific innovations. • You will work across the entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon test planning to supporting post-silicon bring-up and debug when needed. This role is highly cross-functional, bridging CPU and SoC teams, and is critical to delivering robust, low-power, high-performance CPU designs. • Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of CPU Power Management, clock control, and debug logic • Develop and execute test plans and schedules • Write and debug tests in Assembly, SystemVerilog, SVA, C++, and scripting languages to validate functionality in simulation, emulation, and FPGA environments • Build and maintain verification infrastructure, including checkers, transactors, and coverage monitors. • Analyze functional coverage to ensure test plan completeness • Identify, root-cause, and document design issues and collaborate with RTL teams to drive fixes • Support SoC-level debug for clock and power integration issues • Work with silicon bring-up teams to develop tests and debug issues across emulation, FPGA, and silicon. Contribute to post-silicon debug, using waveform and trace tools to diagnose complex system issues.

Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience Programming skills in Perl/Python or SystemVerilog

Experience in processor or power management architecture and verification Experience with system fabric protocols such as AXI In-depth knowledge in design verification environments like random constraint verification and/or UVM base testbenches Experience in system Verilog assertions or silicon bringup or UPF and low power simulation Experience in processor debug features including hardware trace is a plus Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal verification is a plus Advanced programming skills such as object orientated programming or CPU assembly language is a plus Should be an extraordinary teammate with excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex design issues during verification effort Be able to create and follow detailed work schedules and work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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