Apple

Design Verification Engineer

Apple$120K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering discipline; Master's degree preferred.
  • Hands-on ASIC design verification experience using UVM methodology.
  • Proficiency in System Verilog, System C, and C/C++.
  • Experience with Python and Perl for automation solutions.
  • Knowledge of 4G/5G cellular technologies and design verification techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Verify innovative high-throughput cellular systems for Apple's SOCs.
  • Develop reusable UVM verification environments for modems and controllers.
  • Create comprehensive test cases for validating complex designs.
  • Drive methodology innovations using advanced tools and techniques.
  • Collaborate with multi-functional teams to enhance product quality.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cellular technologies.
  • Exposure to best-in-class design verification practices.
  • Development of skills in complex IP and subsystem verification.
  • Collaboration with industry leaders in silicon design.
  • Potential for career advancement and technical growth.
Full Job Description
Do you have a passion for innovation and technical excellence? Do you thrive on solving complex problems that push the boundaries of what's possible? Join our team to verify innovative, high-throughput cellular baseband modems and transceiver link controllers that power communication for millions of users worldwide.

As a Design Verification Engineer, you'll be at the center of our silicon design group's verification efforts, ensuring the quality and reliability of next-generation cellular systems. Working on innovative baseband modems and RF link controllers for Apple's SOCs, you'll craft highly reusable UVM verification environments that set the standard for quality and efficiency. You'll develop comprehensive coverage-driven and directed test cases that thoroughly validate complex IP and subsystem designs, working closely with multi-functional teams throughout the process. In this role, you'll drive methodology innovation by deploying sophisticated tools and techniques that elevate verification practices and ensure tape-out readiness. Collaborating with product development teams across Apple, you'll help deliver cellular systems that redefine industry capabilities and enhance customer experiences globally. This position offers exceptional opportunities to deepen your expertise across cellular protocols, complex IP and subsystem architectures, advanced fabric protocols, and sophisticated debug methodologies. You'll gain experience with best-in-class design verification practices, co-verification techniques with models and firmware, and industry-standard low-power architectures. We're looking for engineers with hands-on ASIC design verification experience using reusable verification methodologies such as UVM. The ideal candidate excels at detailed test planning, adapts optimally to evolving requirements, knowledge of the latest ML based tools to improve productivity and is driven to achieve the highest quality standards. You thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to address the verification challenges inherent in complex, high-performance cellular systems. If you want to contribute to products that impact customers worldwide while advancing your technical expertise, we'd love to hear from you.

Minimum requirement of a bachelor's degree. Knowledge of System Verilog and UVM. Experience with System C, C/C++, Python/perl. Ability to develop and establishing DV Methodologies. Ability to use LLMs and MCPs. Ability to develop Python-based automation solutions. Understanding of constraint random testing, SVA, Coverage driven verification. Test planning and problem-solving skills.

Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. Experience in C/C++ modeling for design verification. Knowledge of 4G/5G cellular physical layer operation (3GPP). Experience with verification of embedded processor cores. Hands-on verification experience of Bus Fabric, NOC, AHB, AXI, based bus architecture in UVM environment. Knowledge of using LLMs to improve efficiency and quality of verification. Understanding of prompt engineering and LLM workflow optimization.

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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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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