CPU Silicon Validation Engineer

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customer experiences very quickly. Dynamic intelligent people and inspiring innovative technologies are the norm here. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Do you want to join us in these pursuits Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product!nnIn this role you will be at the center of a chip design effort that collaborates with many disciplines and has a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers. You will be part of a team responsible for the functional validation of our CPUs with the aim of identifying logic design and circuit bugs. You will be developing CPU test content using our test generators defining new test cases for our cutting-edge CPU designs and spearheading our silicon bring-up efforts.

Work closely with CPU RTL and DV teams to understand changes to our CPU designs and to engineer test content for new CPU featuresn Create CPU validation test plans ensuring all key features are coveredn Develop SW workloads to stress test the CPU and integrate these into our existing validation environmentsn Help maintain and improve our random test generator by adding support for new CPU architectural and microarchitectural featuresn Drive the bring-up and execution of our silicon validation tools in pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards)n Debug functional silicon failures closely with Design and DV counterparts

Minimum BSnAcademic coursework in CPU architecturenExperience in programming in C or C and scripting in Python or Perl

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Science or Computer EngineeringnUnderstanding of CPU architecture including instruction sets pipelines caches and memory subsystemsnExperience with assembly programming (ARM ISA is a plus)nKnowledge of operating system fundamentals including kernel execution privilege levels memory management and virtual machinesnGood understanding of the logic design and verification processnBackground in silicon bring-up and system debug experience is a plusnStrong problem-solving skills