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Emulation Verification Engineer

San Diego, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • System Verilog
  • Verilog
  • UVM
  • Test benches
  • Regression Management
  • Triaging
  • Emulation
  • Palladium
  • Synthesize-able SystemVerilog
  • Synthesize-able Verilog

Nice to have

  • bring up
  • verification
  • RTL
  • Standard Emulator
  • FPGA
  • Scripting

Role summary

Apple is seeking an Emulation Verification Engineer to join their team, focusing on the creation, deployment, and support of advanced emulation environments for large Wireless SoCs. This role involves porting designs onto the Palladium platform, executing emulation test plans, and working with cutting-edge mixed-signal models. The ideal candidate will have a BS degree and at least 10 years of relevant industry experience, with strong skills in System Verilog, Verilog, UVM, testbench creation, regression management, and debugging. Experience with emulation platforms like Palladium, Veloce, or Zebu, as well as scripting languages, is preferred.

Imagine what you could at Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Are you passionate about changing the world? We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly. We are looking for you to join our emulation team focusing on the creation, deployment, and support of advanced emulation environments. In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a chip design effort collaborating with all disciplines. Are you ready to help us deliver the next groundbreaking Apple products?

Description


As a member of Emulation verification team, you will play a key role in utilizing Emulation for verification of large Wireless SoCs. You will also be involved in the most cutting-edge technology of bringing in mixed signal models onto the Palladium platform. The overall work will involve porting the design onto the Palladium platform, followed by executing the detailed Emulation testplan.

Minimum Qualifications


BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience Experience with System Verilog, Verilog or UVM Experience in creating test benches from scratch (Block and System Level) Experience in Regression Management and Triaging

Preferred Qualifications


Experience with bring up, debugging and verification in Emulation Understanding of the tool flow from RTL to Emulation Good understanding of any Standard Emulator (Palladium, Veloce, Zebu) OR FPGA (Xilinx, Altera) flow Proven Design Verification or Silicon Validation skills Experience in writing Synthesize-able SystemVerilog/Verilog code and SystemVerilog assertions Experience with System Verilog verification environments including C/C++ DPI, UVM Experience on any Scripting (Perl/Python/TCL) Excellent analytical and debug skills Hands on usage of Low Power methodologies (UPF based preferably) Experience in UVM Acceleration

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