Lead Pre-Silicon Emulation Engineer for Wireless SoCs

Apple; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Emeryville, CA is seeking a senior verification engineer to own the Palladium-based pre-silicon emulation framework for wireless SoCs. You will design, bootstrap, and maintain the infrastructure that brings up each emulation build in a real-world lab environment.

You will collaborate with firmware, FPGA, and design teams to exercise validation, perform performance characterization, and ensure robust Bluetooth and UWB silicon bring-up across multiple silicon generations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong digital design fundamentals with hands-on RTL experience (Verilog/VHDL) and a solid understanding of SoC architecture, register maps, and system-level hardware/software interaction.
• Working knowledge of wireless systems, including MAC and/or PHY layer concepts.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C/C++ for developing modeling, simulation, and test-bench/verification infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with pre-silicon verification using emulation platforms (e.g., Palladium), including build bring-up, environment and framework development, debug, and performance characterization.

Responsibilities

• Act as the initial validation point for each Palladium emulation build, performing early smoke and sanity testing to confirm the build is functional, correctly configured, and ready for broader team use.
• Build and own the framework and infrastructure that exercises the Palladium build - including register map definitions, initialization and boot sequences, clock and reset setup, and other system-level configuration - to bring the emulated SoC into an operational state.
• Abstract platform bring-up and configuration complexity into reusable infrastructure and tooling, enabling the rest of the team to concentrate on their own design verification rather than platform-level setup.
• Sustain, extend, and maintain this emulation infrastructure across multiple silicon generations, establishing it as a long-lived, reusable platform rather than a per-project effort.
• Support pre-silicon emulation efforts for silicon validation, including test development, debug, and performance characterization on emulation platforms.
• Bring up, test, characterize, and optimize Bluetooth and UWB silicon in the lab, ensuring robust performance across real-world operating conditions.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/VHDL

Python/C/C++

Bluetooth/UWB knowledge

Pre-silicon emulation

Framework development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Palladium

Job description

Apple in Emeryville, CA is seeking a senior verification engineer to own the Palladium-based pre-silicon emulation framework for wireless SoCs. You will design, bootstrap, and maintain the infrastructure that brings up each emulation build in a real-world lab environment.

You will collaborate with firmware, FPGA, and design teams to exercise validation, perform performance characterization, and ensure robust Bluetooth and UWB silicon bring-up across multiple silicon generations.