
Design Verification Engineer
Required skills
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics Engineering
- Digital design
- analog knowledge
- architecture
- micro-architecture
- Verilog
- synthesizable digital designs
- test-benches
- C++
Role summary
Apple is seeking a Design Verification Engineer in Cupertino, California, to ensure bug-free first silicon for SoC/IP. Responsibilities include developing detailed test and coverage plans, verification methodologies, and environments with stimulus, checkers, and assertions. The role involves creating block, IP, and SoC level test-benches, tracking progress, and debugging failures. Requires experience with Verilog, C/C++, Python, Matlab, and scripting languages for tasks like data analysis, machine learning, and creating reference models. The engineer will execute the chip design flow from specification to verification closure, ensuring seamless interaction between analog and digital circuits.
Description
APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Ensure 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 a scalable and portable environment. Develop verification environment, including all the respective components such as stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, coverage. Learn to develop verification plans for all features under executing verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring- up, regression enabling all feature and debugging of the test failures. Develop block, IP and SoC level test-benches track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including bugs and coverage. Writing scripts in Python or TCL. Developing stimulus and checkers to ensure analog and digital circuit interactions work seamlessly. 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 $150,400 - $225,300/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Minimum Qualifications
Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field. Experience and/or education must include: Using Digital design and analog knowledge to create architecture and micro-architecture for the designs. Using Verilog knowledge to create synthesizable digital designs and test-benches to verify the designs. Using C and C++ to create reference models of the design under test to accurately predict design behavior Utilizing python for data analysis/processing, visualization, and machine learning implementation. Executed chip design flow from specification to verification closure. Experience with matlab programming to analyze probabilistic modelling and data analysis. Using scripting languages like Perl or Python to create executable scripts.
Preferred Qualifications
N/A
Sample Apple interview questions
- 1
Design a typeahead box for a search engine
system designmedium - 2
Design a rate limiter
system designmedium - 3
Architect a key-value store for distributed systems.
system designmedium - 4
Design a system to schedule jobs in a distributed environment
system designmedium - 5
What is an API and how does it work?
technicalmedium
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