Apple

GPU Design Verification Engineer

Apple$100K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 3+ years of relevant experience in hardware verification
  • Proficient in Verilog and SystemVerilog/UVM
  • Strong understanding of computer architecture and memory subsystems
  • Experience with GPU architecture standards like OpenGL, Vulkan, or Metal

Responsibilities

  • Verify complex GPU RTL designs using hardware description languages
  • Collaborate with architecture and design teams for specification alignment
  • Develop and drive comprehensive verification plans
  • Architect sophisticated test benches using OOP and UVM techniques
  • Generate and execute constrained random and directed tests
  • Run simulations and debug hardware/software issues
  • Implement Formal Verification techniques to enhance simulation

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and innovation
  • Collaborative and dynamic work environment
  • Focus on sustainability and leaving a positive impact
  • Access to Apple’s extensive resources and technology
  • Involvement in projects that affect millions of customers worldwide
Full Job Description
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex problems? Do you intrinsically see importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you'll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient, system-on-chip (SoC). You'll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining the Apple GPU group means you'll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple's devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. In this role, you'll be responsible for block and sub-system level pre-silicon RTL verification of embedded graphics cores. You will also support the top and post-silicon validation teams in ensuring the successful integration of our IPs into the full system.

Description

As a Graphics Core Hardware Verification Engineer, you will be tasked with the following:

- Use hardware description languages (Verilog), hardware verification languages (SystemVerilog/UVM), and logic simulators to verify sophisticated GPU RTL designs.

- Collaborate with architecture, design and modeling teams to converge on design specification.

- Develop and drive verification plans and schedules.

- Architect test benches using sophisticated OOP, UVM and vertical reuse techniques.

- Generate constrained random and directed tests to implement verification plan.

- Run simulations and debug issues across hardware and software.

- Deploy Formal Verification techniques to complement simulation flows.

- Build functional coverage, analyze coverage, and improve test environment to target coverage holes.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience debugging hardware at simulation, component, or system level.

Experience building validation environments using constrained random and coverage driven stimulus.

Experience working with code and functional coverage.

Experience developing automation flows using scripting languages.

BS + 3 years relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to debug issues across hardware and software boundaries.

Experience applying OOP principals to building scalable/reusable test benches.

Understanding of Computer Architecture and Memory sub-system micro-architecture.

Familiarity in GPU architecture and standards (OpenGL/CL, Vulcan, Metal).

Familiarity with simulator mechanics and simulation throughput issues.

Experience with Formal Verification techniques and tools such as JasperGold.

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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$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
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