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CPU Design Verification Engineer

Apple

Cupertino, CAFull-time$174–195K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$174–195K/yr
Location
Cupertino, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Apple seeks a CPU Design Verification Engineer to verify CPU design functionality in collaboration with architecture and RTL designers. The engineer develops test plans, test environments, tests, coverage monitors, and checkers, and owns verification for an area of CPU functionality. The role is based in Cupertino, California, and is stated as 40 hours per week.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Digital Logic DesignComputer ArchitectureCPU MicroarchitectureCC++VerilogCoverage MonitoringCoverage AnalysisChecker DevelopmentC-Based TransactorsAssertion-Based VerificationFormal VerificationAssemblyStimulus DevelopmentDebuggingRoot Cause AnalysisSilicon Bring-UpHardware-Software Interface DebuggingValidationData Path VerificationControl Logic Verification

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Related Field

Benefits

401(k) Match
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200691583-0836

Summary

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of the design. Develop and lead testing plan and test environment. Develop complex 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 or C-base transactor to verify the design. Own the verification of a certain area of functionality in a CPU design. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $174,149 - $194,700/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

  • Education and/or experience in the following skills are required:

  • Utilizing digital logic design, computer architecture, and CPU microarchitecture to verify CPU design.

  • Utilizing C or C++ and Verilog programming for testbench and test plan development.

  • Utilizing skills in development of coverage monitors and providing coverage analysis to ensure test plan completeness.

  • Utilizing skills in development of checkers and C-based transactors for design verification.

  • Utilizing skills in assertion-based and formal verification techniques Assembly and C-based stimulus development and debugging.

  • Utilizing skills in functional issue triaging and root cause, providing complete root cause analysis and functional debug analysis.

  • Understanding and participating in silicon bring-up process to enable engineers to reproduce silicon issues on pre-silicon simulation environment.

  • Utilizing skills in Hardware and software interface debugging and validation to identify, analyze and resolve complex issues between component and systems.

  • Providing verification of complex data path and control logic structures to ensure the functionality correctness of the design.

Preferred Qualifications

  • N/A

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,060 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$174–195K/yr
  • California median$145–214K/yr950 salary ranges
  • US median$132–204K/yr2,272 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $184K, is 4% above the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,251 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 3,060 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (2,588 postings).
Education
1,740 of the 3,060 open Hardware Engineer jobs (57%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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