Design Verification Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an outstandingly hardworking design verification engineer to enable first silicon delivery for IP designs. You will create SV/UVM based testbenches, develop DV methodologies, and drive coverage and sign-off.

In this role you will implement verification plans, bring up DV environments, debug regressions, and measure progress with metrics. LLMs and advanced automation will be used to improve efficiency and quality in pre-silicon verification.

Qualifications

• BS degree required in a technical field and 10+ years of experience.
• Expertise in SystemVerilog/UVM and OOP-based testbench design.
• Strong knowledge of verification methodologies, tools, and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Study design specs and develop test plans and SV/UVM-based testbenches.
• Develop and maintain DV infrastructure and testbenches for IP and IP blocks.
• Debug, fix failures from regressions, and drive coverage goals.
• Apply LLMs to improve verification efficiency and quality.

Skills

OOP concepts

SystemVerilog

UVM

Verification methodologies

Python

Perl

TCL

LLMs for verification

Power-aware verification (UPF)

Digital design knowledge

Education

BS degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science / related field

Tools

SystemVerilog tooling

Waveform viewers

Simulators

Automation scripts

UPF tooling

Formal verification tooling

Emulation tools

PCIe

USB

Job description

At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet and changing the game? We have an opportunity for an outstandingly hardworking design verification engineer! As a member of our wide-ranging group, you will have the rare and extraordinary opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers daily.This role is for a DV engineer who will enable us to produce fully functional first silicon for IP designs. The responsibilities include all phases of pre-silicon verification including but not limited to: establishing DV methodology, test-plan development, verification environment development including stimulus and checkers, test-writing, debug, coverage, sign-off for RTL freeze and tape-out.

Description

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring bug-free first silicon for part of the SoC / IP and are encouraged to develop detailed test and coverage plans based on the micro-architecture. You are responsible for developing verification methodology suitable for the IP, ensuring a scalable and portable environment. You will get to develop verification environment, including all the respective components such as stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, coverage. A mindset to break the design is highly desirable.Furthermore, you will develop verification plans for all features under your care, execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring- up, regression enabling features, and debug of the test failures. You will also learn to develop block, IP and SoC level test-benches track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including bugs and coverage. You will also be expected to make use of LLM and related technologies to achieve efficient execution and improved quality.

Responsibilities

• Study design specification and create test plan
• Develop infrastructure in SystemVerilog/UVM to stress the design
• Develop and fix failures from regressions, close bugs
• Use LLMs to do verification efficiently

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in technical subject area and a minimum 10 years relevant industry experience or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of OOP, SystemVerilog and UVM
• Deep knowledge in developing scalable and portable test-benches
• Strong experience with verification methodologies and tools such as simulators, waveform viewers, Build and run automation, coverage collection, gate level simulations
• Working experience using LLMs for efficiency and quality
• Experience with power-aware (UPF) or similar verification methodology
• Excellent knowledge of one of the scripting languages such as Python, Perl, TCL
• Experience with serial protocols such as PCIe or USB, parallel protocol such as DDR is a plus but not required
• Knowledge of formal verification methodology is a plus but not required
• Knowledge of emulation for verification technologies is a plus but not required