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Design Verification Engineer

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Location
Austin, TX
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

Apple seeks a Design Verification Engineer in Austin, Texas, to verify system-on-chip designs. The role develops coverage-driven plans, reusable UVM test benches, sequences, and test infrastructure, and integrates verification components through subsystem and SoC levels. The engineer works with design, architecture, software, firmware, external IP teams, and verification methodology architects to integrate and verify SoC designs and improve verification flows.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

VerilogVHDLSystemVerilogTest Bench DevelopmentReference ModelingStimulus GenerationDesign DebuggingObject-Oriented ProgrammingC/C++Combinational CircuitsSequential CircuitsMicroprocessor ArchitectureProcessor OrganizationInstruction Set ArchitectureAssembly InstructionsCPU ArchitectureMultithreadingInterrupt HandlingSemaphoresLinux/UnixPerlBashPythonJob AutomationCadenceSynopsys SimulatorsDigital Design SimulationWaveform Debugging

Qualifications

Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Related Field

Full job description

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200691661-0157

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 Austin, Texas. Understand details of High-Efficiency SOC Architecture, standard SOC peripherals such as SPI, I2C, UART, Timer, DMA, memory management schemes, low power spec, multi-processor systems, DDR, PCIe, DDR, Memory Controller Sub Systems, USB, PLL, power-up, Secured Boot schemes. Create coverage driven verification plans from specifications, review and refine to achieve coverage targets. Create IP level module and sub-system verification plan, TB, portable test benches, sequences, and test infrastructure. Architect UVM-based highly reusable test benches and integrating complex multi-instance VIPs, sub-system test benches, and test suites to SOC level, achieve targeted coverage, working with design, architecture, SW, FW, and external IP delivery teams to efficiently integrate and verify overall SOC design. Collaborate closely with DV methodology architects to improve verification flow. 40 hours/week.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

  • Experience and/or education must include:

  • Using hardware description languages including Verilog and VHDL to develop digital designs

  • Using hardware programming language System Verilog develop test benches for digital designs including reference models, stimulus generation and debugging design under test

  • Writing programs and designing system models that need object oriented programming approach using programming languages including C/C++ Using combinational and sequential circuit designs and their usage patterns to understand, verify and debug digital designs

  • Understanding of Microprocessors architecture, processor organization, instruction set architecture and assembly instructions to work on microprocessor design verification, integration

  • Understanding of CPU architecture in relation to multi-threading, interrupt handling, semaphores and how these features are used in SoCs

  • Using Linux/Unix operating systems to manage files, run commands, monitor jobs

  • Using scripting languages including Perl, Bash and Python to work on automating jobs and write programs that can help in verification flows

  • Using Industry Standard Tools including Cadence, Synopsys simulators to design digital blocks, simulate test benches and debug waveforms

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 postingNot listed
  • Texas median$131–204K/yr171 salary ranges
  • US median$60–68/hr76 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 332 open Hardware Engineer jobs in Texas and 3,060 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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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.

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