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SoC Design Verification Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Oct 13, 2025

Role Number: 200625848-0157

Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge? This position allows you to be a part of one of the most innovative and key projects that Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group has embarked upon to date.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to take the lead and contribute to verifying a set of sophisticated SOCs that are driving Apple’s flagship Cellular 5G platform. As a member of this team you will integrate multiple sophisticated IP-level DV environments, craft highly reusable UVM TB, implement effective coverage-driven and advised test infrastructure, deploy new tools, develop and deploy AIML methodology, and implement ideas to improve the quality of tape-out readiness of all our chips.

By collaborating with other product development groups across Apple, you can push the industry boundaries of what complex SOC chips can do and improve the product experience for our customers across the world! You will be able to learn all aspects of a large-scale SOC, different types of SOC architecture, many high-speed layered protocols, the industry’s standard methodologies on low-power architecture, outstanding DV methodology, verification on accelerated platforms, knowledge of Cellular protocol, FW-HW interactions, complexities of multi-chip SOC debug architecture, etc.

Description

As a Design Verification Engineer on our team, you'll be at the center of the verification effort within our silicon design group responsible for crafting and productizing innovative Cellular SoCs! This position requires someone comfortable will all areas of SoC design verification engineering. Someone who thrives in a dynamic multi-functional organization, someone who is not afraid to debate ideas openly, and is flexible enough to shift inconstantly evolving requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand details of High-Efficiency SOC Architecture, standard SOC peripherals such as SPI, I2C, UART, Timer, high BW DMAs, memory management schemes, low power spec, multi-processor systems, DDR, PCIe, DDR, Memory Controller Sub Systems, USB, PLL, power up, Secured Boot schemes.

• Build coverage-driven verification plans from specifications, and review and refine them to achieve coverage targets.

• Create IP level module and sub-system verification plan, TB, portable test benches, sequences, and test infrastructure.

• Architect UVM-based highly reusable test benches and integrate sophisticated multi-instance VIPs, sub-system test benches, and test suites to SOC level, achieve targeted coverage, and work with design, architecture, SW, FW, and external IP delivery teams to efficiently integrate and verify overall SOC design.

• Work closely with DV methodology architects to improve verification flow.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and 3 + years of relevant industry experience.

• Experience in Object Oriented Programming.

• Experience in Digital Design.

• Experience in Developing Reference Model of DUT and Verification using HVL.

Preferred Qualifications

• MSEE, MSCS or beyond is preferred.

• Experience in Computer Architecture, SOC, Networking Protocols.

• Programming experience in SystemVerilog, Python, OOP

• An extraordinary teammate with excellent communication and problem-solving skills and the desire to seek diverse challenges

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