CPU Debug and Power Management Verification Engineer

CPU Debug and Power Management Verification Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated Design Verification Engineer to join our silicon engineering team focused on the auxiliary features of a high-performance ARM-based CPU. These features include Power Management, Clock Control, Debug Infrastructure, Resets, and Special-Purpose Registers—spanning both ARM-standard capabilities and Apple-specific innovations.

• Work across the entire product lifecycle, from pre-silicon test planning to supporting post-silicon bring-up and debug when needed.
• Bridge CPU and SoC teams, collaborating with architecture and RTL designers to verify functionality of CPU Power Management, clock control, and debug logic.
• Develop and execute test plans and schedules.
• Write and debug tests in Assembly, System Verilog, SVA, C++, and scripting languages to validate functionality in simulation, emulation, and FPGA environments.
• Build and maintain verification infrastructure, including checkers, transactors, and coverage monitors.
• Analyze functional coverage to ensure test plan completeness.
• Identify, root-cause, and document design issues and collaborate with RTL teams to drive fixes.
• Support SoC-level debug for clock and power integration issues.
• Work with silicon bring-up teams to develop tests and debug issues across emulation, FPGA, and silicon, contributing to post-silicon debug using waveform and trace tools to diagnose complex system issues.

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Programming skills in Perl/Python or System Verilog.

• Experience in processor or power management architecture and verification.
• Experience with system fabric protocols such as AXI.
• In-depth knowledge of design verification environments like random constraint verification and/or UVM base test benches.
• Experience in System Verilog assertions, silicon bringup, UPF, and low power simulation.
• Experience in processor debug features, including hardware trace.
• Experience with advanced verification techniques such as formal verification.
• Advanced programming skills such as object-oriented programming or CPU assembly language.
• Exceptional teamwork, communication skills, and ability to articulate complex design issues during verification.
• Ability to create and follow detailed work schedules and work independently on the verification efforts for a block/area of the design.

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