Job Details

CPU Debug and Power Management Verification Engineer

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: May 15, 2025

Role Number: 200605122

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In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.

Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Design Verification Engineer to join our silicon engineering team focused on the auxiliary features of a high-performance ARM-based CPU. These features include Power Management, Clock Control, Debug Infrastructure, Resets, and Special-Purpose Registers—spanning both ARM-standard capabilities and Apple-specific innovations.

• You will work across the entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon test planning to supporting post-silicon bring-up and debug when needed. This role is highly cross-functional, bridging CPU and SoC teams, and is critical to delivering robust, low-power, high-performance CPU designs.
• Work closely with architecture and RTL designers on verifying the functionality correctness of CPU Power Management, clock control, and debug logic
• Develop and execute test plans and schedules
• Write and debug tests in Assembly, SystemVerilog, SVA, C++, and scripting languages to validate functionality in simulation, emulation, and FPGA environments
• Build and maintain verification infrastructure, including checkers, transactors, and coverage monitors.
• Analyze functional coverage to ensure test plan completeness
• Identify, root-cause, and document design issues and collaborate with RTL teams to drive fixes
• Support SoC-level debug for clock and power integration issues
• Work with silicon bring-up teams to develop tests and debug issues across emulation, FPGA, and silicon. Contribute to post-silicon debug, using waveform and trace tools to diagnose complex system issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience

• Experience with digital logic and micro-processor architecture or power management architecture

• Experience with digital design verification including experience using Verilog and System-Verilog-based testbenches and transactors checkers

• Programming skills in scripting languages in one of the following: Perl or Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in processor or power management architecture and verification

• Experience with system fabric protocols such as AXI

• In-depth knowledge in design verification environments like random constraint verification and/or UVM base testbenches

• Experience in System Verilog assertions or silicon bringup or UPF and low power simulation

• Experience in processor debug features including hardware trace is a plus

• Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal verification is a plus

• Advanced programming skills such as object orientated programming or CPU assembly language is a plus

• Should be an extraordinary teammate with excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex design issues during verification effort

• Be able to create and follow detailed work schedules and work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design

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