$174,149 - $194,700 USD yearly
About the role
Work closely with architecture and RTL designers to verify the functionality correctness of a CPU design. In this role, you will own the verification of a specific functional area within the processor design.
What you'll do
- Develop and lead test plans and verification test environments.
- Develop complex tests in assembly, C, or vectors according to test plans.
- Build coverage monitors and analyze coverage metrics to ensure all test plan cases are covered.
- Develop checkers and C-based transactors to verify the design implementation.
- Own the functional verification of designated CPU sub-blocks and data path/control logic structures.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience applying digital logic design, computer architecture, and CPU microarchitecture to verify CPU designs.
- Proficiency in C or C++ and Verilog programming for testbench and test plan development.
- Experience developing coverage monitors and performing coverage analysis for test plan completeness.
- Background in developing checkers and C-based transactors for design verification.
- Experience with assertion-based and formal verification techniques, along with assembly and C-based stimulus development and debugging.
- Experience with functional issue triaging, root cause analysis, and hardware/software interface debugging.
- Understanding of the silicon bring-up process to reproduce silicon issues in pre-silicon simulation environments.
Skills: CPU verification, Verilog, C/C++, testbench, formal verification, coverage analysis
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First seen in our index 8 days ago, well below the 59-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1412
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Median days since first seen
59 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$185k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (1412 roles · 101 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 107 | 1412 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 180 | 3617 · 122 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 17 d | 59 d (+42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: CPU verification, Verilog, C/C++, testbench, formal verification, coverage analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 138 open roles · median 52 d
- NVIDIA · 109 open roles · median 74 d
- Apple (this employer) · 107 open roles · median 17 d
- Synopsys · 90 open roles · median 53 d
- AMD · 81 open roles · median 65 d
- SiFive · 57 open roles · median 72 d
How we counted: 1412 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 101 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.
