Wireless PHY Design Verification Engineer

Apple • San Diego, CA

3d

About The Position

Join Apple’s Wireless Connectivity team developing WiFi SoCs for Apple products. This role verifies WiFi PHY digital systems spanning time- and frequency-domain processing, hardware acceleration, calibration engines, and protocol implementation. The engineer will help verify wireless features designed for high rates, low power, low latency, and multi-link operation.

The role owns subsystem verification from test planning through coverage closure. It includes building verification environments, developing constrained-random scenarios, applying analytics and coverage methodologies, and working with Systems and Design teams to deliver verified wireless silicon.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
• Track record of several tapeout cycles of sophisticated designs.
• Experience verifying wireless, DSP, or digital communication systems.
• Knowledge of ASIC verification flows using SystemVerilog and UVM, including testbench architecture, scenario creation, and coverage-driven methodologies.
• Experience developing verification environments, bringing up complex designs, and debugging simulations.
• Experience with constrained-random testing, functional coverage implementation, and assertion-based verification.
• Knowledge of IEEE 802.11 wireless protocols, Bluetooth, cellular, or similar communication systems.
• Experience applying or integrating system models using DPIs.
• Understanding of DSP algorithm verification strategies, including bit/cycle matching and assertions.
• Experience with transaction-level modeling, including packet-based approaches such as scoreboarding and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Develop sophisticated UVM environments and bus functional models for complex DSP subsystems and IEEE 802.11 protocols.
• Own subsystem verification from test planning and environment bring-up through feature closure.
• Develop UVM testbench environments, bus functional models, assertions, and infrastructure or DPIs for utilizing algorithm models.
• Architect and implement constrained-random scenarios that exercise complex protocol interactions.
• Track coverage and issues, identify gaps, and apply metrics to drive data-driven verification closure.
• Drive verification strategy with cross-functional Systems and Design teams to achieve coverage closure across complex domains.

What This Job Offers

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