Design Verification Engineer

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Ensure a bug-free first silicon for part of the SoC/IP. Develop detailed test and coverage plans based on the micro-architecture. Develop verification methodology suitable for the IP, ensuring scalable and portable environment. Develop verification environment, including all the respective components including stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, coverage. Design and execute feature verification plans, including design bring-up, design verification environment bring-up, regression enabling, debug of the test failures. Develop block, IP and SoC level test-benches. Track and report design verification progress using a variety of metrics, including bugs and coverage. Develop mixed-signal simulation environment and work closely with analog team to ensure overall bug-free mixed-signal designs. 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 $186,472 - $220,900/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience and/or education must include:

Using Verilog, System Verilog to create complex IC verification environment to simulate pre-silicon all possible use cases
Using C and C++ to create reference models of the design under test to accurately predict the behavior
Using digital design and verification to test the design and debug the failures
Using Computer Architecture to understand the use case of the soft IP cores and how it inter-operates with the various CPU sub-systems
Using scripting languages like PERL or Python to create executable scripts.

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