
Design Verification
Cupertino, CAFull-time$174–225K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Apple seeks a Design Verification professional to ensure the quality of system-on-chip, IP, or subsystem designs. The role reviews design and architecture specifications, develops verification plans and testbenches, and collaborates with design, architecture, and software teams to test use cases and corner conditions. It also involves running regressions, analyzing coverage and failures, tracking bugs, and tracing signals with tools such as Verdi.
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Full job description
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200691546-0836
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. Ensure the quality of the SC, IP, or subsystem. Review design and architecture specifications and working closely with micro-architecture teams. Understand the functional & performance goals of the design and use this knowledge to test effectively. Develop test plans, tests and coverage plans as well as define Apple’s next generation verification methodology test benches. Communicate and collaborate with design, architecture and software teams to understand the use cases and corner conditions and drive test cases. Run and triage regressions, tracking bugs, and analyzing coverage to achieve top results. Analyze test failures, trace signals using tools like Verdi, and collaborate with the design team to address issues. Take ownership of individual tasks and deliverables, ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines. 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 - $225,300/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
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Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field.
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Experience and/or education must include:
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Utilizing Verilog to code testbenches that can verify functionality and performance of digital hardware designs
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Using Verilog to understand and debug digital designs and write Verilog test bench wrappers and components.
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Performing Design Verification Testbench development to understand digital design specifications and development and verify functionality of design.
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Using Python as Scripting Language to write scripts for stimulus and test creation, regression analysis, and coverage collection.
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Using Python as scripting language for automation.
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Experience in Computer Architecture, including system level understanding of hardware functionality.
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Using C++ to create and debug behavioral reference models to verify the RTL functionality
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Experience running regressions, managing bug tracking, and analyzing design performance.
Preferred Qualifications
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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 1,040 open Hardware Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$174–225K/yr
- California median$172–245K/yr228 salary ranges
- US median$146–245K/yr726 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $200K, is 4% below the California median midpoint ($209K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineering salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 359 open Hardware Engineering jobs in California and 1,040 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Hardware Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (635 postings).
- Education
- 357 of the 1,040 open Hardware Engineering jobs (34%) 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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