Design Verification Engineer

Apple • Waltham, MA

22h • Onsite

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 Waltham, Massachusetts.

Requirements

• Developing detailed test plans from design specifications
• Using SystemVerilog to verify high performance VLSI designs
• Using Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) to develop testbenches, tests, sequences, scoreboards, assertions, and coverage objects
• Setting up and executing regression suites
• Root-cause debugging of regression failures
• Analyzing functional and code coverage reports and closing coverage gaps
• Using Python, Perl, or Tcl to automate tasks
• Utilization of formal verification tools

Nice To Haves

• Use EDA tools such as Cadence Xcelium for simulation, VManager for test plan development, Virtuoso for schematic viewing, Jasper Gold for formal verification and Verdi for waveform viewing and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Use both functional and formal verification to ensure bug-free delivery of features.
• Develop detailed test and coverage plans based on the microarchitecture.
• Develop verification methodology suitable for the IP, ensuring a scalable and portable environment.
• Develop a verification environment, including all the respective components such as stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, and coverage.
• Develop verification plans for all features.
• Execute verification plans, including design bring-up, DV environment bring- up, regression enabling all features under my care, and debug 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• A range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance
• Discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior