Design Verification Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Ensure the quality of the SOC or an IP or subsystem. Review design and architecture specifications and work closely with design & microarchitecture teams. Understand the functional & performance goals of the design and use knowledge to test effectively. Develop test plans, tests & coverage plans as well as define our next generation verification methodology & test benches. Communicate and collaborate with design, architecture and software to understand the use cases and corner conditions and drive test cases; and run and triage regressions, track bugs, and analyze coverage to achieve top results.

Requirements

Utilizing System Verilog to build scalable and reusable testbenches for SoC verification
Scripting using Perl and Python for testbench simulation flows automation
Using digital design concepts for functional verification of RTL DUT (design-under-test)
Utilizing Computer Architecture concepts for verifying SoC architecture and design
Utilizing System Verilog to create constrained random stimulus for RTL DUT verification (design-under-test)
Utilizing UVM to build test benches for constrained random verification of SoC IPs
Utilizing design verification concepts such as functional coverage metrics for SoC design verification

Responsibilities

Ensure the quality of the SOC or an IP or subsystem.
Review design and architecture specifications and work closely with design & microarchitecture teams.
Understand the functional & performance goals of the design and use knowledge to test effectively.
Develop test plans, tests & coverage plans as well as define our next generation verification methodology & test benches.
Communicate and collaborate with design, architecture and software to understand the use cases and corner conditions and drive test cases.
Run and triage regressions, track bugs, and analyze coverage to achieve top results.