MAC Design Verification Engineer

Apple; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in San Diego is seeking a Wireless Design Verification Engineer to join its wireless silicon team. You will perform pre-silicon RTL verification of the wireless MAC and its interfaces, collaborating with DV methodologists and designers to define test plans and reusable testbenches.

The role emphasizes energy-efficient design, metric-driven verification, and ownership of verifications across MAC/PHY/DMA blocks, with experience in SystemVerilog, UVM, and scripting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Advanced knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM, and SystemVerilog Assertions.
• Experience with ASIC verification flows including test bench development and coverage.
• Experience with MAC/PHY/DMA, timers, AMBA bus/fabric, and crypto engines.

Responsibilities

• Pre-silicon RTL verification of the wireless MAC and its interfaces.
• Collaborate with DV methodologists, designers, and engineers to develop reusable testbenches and metric-driven verification to ensure high design quality.

Skills

Verilog

SystemVerilog

UVM

SystemVerilog Assertions

Constrained Random Testing

Code Coverage

Functional Coverage

MAC

PHY

DMA

AMBA

Encryption/Decryption Engine

Bluetooth

WLAN

ZigBee

Python

Shell Scripting

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Shell

Perl

Job description

Would you like to join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team? Our wireless SoC organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development with a particular emphasis on highly energy-efficient design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by a world-class vertically integrated engineering team spanning RF/Analog architecture and design, Systems/PHY/MAC architecture and design, VLSI/RTL design and integration, Design Verification, Emulation, Test and Validation, and FW/SW engineering.

In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a silicon design group with a critical impact on delivering world-class silicon to empower wireless products for hundreds of millions of customers. As a Wireless Design Verification Engineer, you will be responsible for pre-silicon RTL verification of wireless MAC and its interfaces with the rest of the wireless SoC. You will interact with DV methodologists, designers, and communication systems engineers to develop reusable testbench and verification environment deploying the latest methodology with metric-driven verification, ensuring the highest design quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of a bachelor's degree.
• Advanced knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM, and SystemVerilog Assertion.
• Knowledge and experience of ASIC verification flows including test bench development, constrained random testing, and code/functional coverage.
• Verification experience of one or more of the following: MAC, PHY, DMA, timer, AMBA bus and fabric, encryption/decryption engine.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of verification experience of wireless/wired communication block/subsystem.
• Verification experience of wireless/wired communication block/subsystem.
• Knowledge of wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB, WLAN, or Zigbee.
• Proficient in shell and Python scripting, Perl scripting.
• Experience of using AI technologies in data mining/analysis.
• Experience of Palladium/FPGA validation.
• Should be a team player with excellent communication skills, self-motivated and well organized.