Emulation Verification Engineer

Apple • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

The Emulation Verification Engineer will help create, deploy, and support advanced emulation environments for verification of large wireless SoCs. The role involves porting designs onto the Palladium platform, bringing up SoCs and mixed-signal components, and executing a detailed emulation test plan. The engineer will develop and use monitors and checkers, contribute design and verification code, and collaborate across disciplines to support high-quality functional products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 10 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with SystemVerilog, Verilog, or UVM.
• Experience creating test benches from scratch at block and system levels.
• Experience in regression management and triage.
• Experience with emulation bring-up, debugging, and verification.
• Understanding of the tool flow from RTL to emulation.
• Good understanding of a standard emulator (Palladium, Veloce, or Zebu) or FPGA (Xilinx or Altera) flow.
• Proven design verification or silicon validation skills.
• Experience writing synthesizable SystemVerilog/Verilog code and SystemVerilog assertions.
• Experience with SystemVerilog verification environments, including C/C++ DPI and UVM.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or TCL.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills.
• Hands-on usage of low-power methodologies, preferably UPF-based.
• Experience in UVM acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Bring up large wireless SoCs and their mixed-signal components on the emulation platform.
• Develop and utilize monitors and checkers on the emulation platform.
• Prepare and execute the emulation test plan and conduct reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with Design, Architecture, Power, Silicon Validation, Performance, and Software teams.
• Develop design and verification code that supports emulation activities, using Verilog, SystemVerilog, and UVM.

What This Job Offers

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