Job Details

Design Test Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 10, 2025

Role Number: 200598917

At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet and changing the game? We have an opportunity for an outstandingly hardworking Test Design engineer! As a member of our wide-ranging group, you will have the rare and extraordinary opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers daily.

This role is for a Design Test engineer who will enable us to produce fully functional first silicon for IP designs. The responsibilities include all phases of silicon Test Definition including but not limited to establishing Test development methodology, test-plan development, verification environment development including stimulus and checkers, test-writing, debug, coverage, and sign-off.

Description

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring bug-free first Test Bring Up for part of the SoC / IP. You are responsible for developing the Test elaboration methodology suitable for the IP, ensuring a scalable and portable environment. You will get to test / using verification environment, including all the respective components such as stimulus, checkers, assertions, code compliance, dashboards.

Furthermore, you will develop test plans / Test sequences for all features under your care, code the different test sequence and actively participate to the Test / SoC / IP Bring UP. You will also deeply cooperate with the Digital and Analogue design team and be the Main contributor interacting with the ATE and DFT teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in technical discipline with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid knowledge in developing scalable and portable test-benches / Test sequences.

• Relevant experience with Digital Verification or Analog mixed signal designs or Digital Design and tools such as simulators, waveform viewersBuild and run automation. An experience on High speed Analogue / Analogue Design knowledge is a plus.

• Excellent knowledge of one of the scripting languages such as Python, Perl, TCL.

• Experience with serial protocols such as PCIe or USB, parallel protocol such as DDR is a plus but not required

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