Graphics Hardware Verification Engineer

Apple - Orlando, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Orlando, FL

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Graphics Core Hardware Verification Engineer will play a crucial role in the Silicon Technologies group at Apple, focusing on the pre-silicon RTL verification of embedded graphics cores. This position involves collaborating with various teams to ensure the successful integration of IPs into Apple's high-performance, power-efficient system-on-chip (SoC) designs, ultimately enhancing the user experience across Apple products.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of hardware description languages (VHDL/Verilog) and hardware verification languages (SystemVerilog) to verify complex GPU RTL designs.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, and modeling teams to converge on design specifications.
• Develop and drive verification plans and schedules.
• Architect test benches using sophisticated OOP, UVM, and vertical reuse techniques.
• Generate constrained random and advised tests to implement the verification plan.
• Run simulations and debug issues across hardware and software.
• Deploy Formal Verification techniques to complement simulation flows.
• Build functional coverage, analyze coverage, and improve the test environment to target coverage holes.
• Build automated verification flows such as ML-assisted coverage closure for graphics core verification.

Requirements

• 3 years of relevant experience in hardware verification at system or component level.
• Strong background in debugging issues across hardware and software.
• Deep knowledge of Computer Architecture and Memory sub-system micro-architecture.
• Expertise with various HDL simulators and waveform viewers.
• Strong experience defining coverage space, writing functional coverage, and analyzing results.
• Deep understanding of both RTL and gate-level simulation issues.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in GPU architecture and standards (OpenGL/CL, Vulkan, Metal).
• Experience with Python, Perl, Shell scripting, Makefiles, TCL.
• Experience with Formal Verification techniques and tools such as JasperGold.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity.