Custom Circuits Design Verification Engineer
About the role
Design Verification Engineers are responsible for verifying the functionality and performance of digital custom IPs delivered across Apple SoCs. The position works directly with digital custom circuits and RTL design teams to deliver bug-free pre-silicon custom IP.
What you'll do
- Review design and architecture specifications to understand use cases and corner conditions.
- Translate specifications into testbenches comprising stimulus, checkers, assertions, trackers, and coverage components.
- Collaborate with custom circuit designers and RTL designers to understand design functionality and performance goals.
- Run and triage regressions, track bugs, and analyze coverage metrics to achieve verification goals.
What you'll need
- BS degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- DV skills including random verification process, functional coverage, code coverage, and assertion methodology.
- Knowledge of Verilog or SystemVerilog, digital simulation, and debug tools.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language, such as Perl or Python.
- Knowledge of behavioral and structural RTL coding as it pertains to SRAM, register file, and custom circuit designs.
- Knowledge of FPGA and emulation challenges related to RTL coding and verification.
- Knowledge of industry standard design tools, such as ESPCV and LEC.
- Knowledge of regression and revision control tools.
- Knowledge of DFT concepts including ATPG and MBIST.
Skills: SystemVerilog, UVM, SRAM, functional coverage, assertions
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 59-day median for Design Verification roles.
Design Verification · Design Verification
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Open roles in category
1272
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Median days open
59 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$186k
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| Metric | Apple | All employers we track in this specialty (1272 roles · 97 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 75 | 1272 |
| Open roles in the wider Digital Design & Verification family | 172 | 3381 · 114 employers |
| Median days open | 13 d | 59 d (−46 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $186k |
Skills observed across this category: SystemVerilog, UVM, SRAM, functional coverage, assertions
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 114 open roles · median 46 d
- NVIDIA · 97 open roles · median 74 d
- AMD · 85 open roles · median 60 d
- Apple (this employer) · 72 open roles · median 12 d
- Synopsys · 71 open roles · median 47 d
- SiFive · 59 open roles · median 60 d
How we counted: 1272 open Design Verification (Design Verification) roles from 97 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 2 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 — it is counted in the wider Digital Design & Verification family row. Figures refresh nightly.