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Silicon Validation Lead - Custom Silicon Management

Company:
Apple
Location:
Cupertino, CA
Posted:
September 13, 2025
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Description:

You will be responsible for validation and quality of custom silicon. You are expected to: - Work closely with internal & external teams to review specifications, drive improvement of existing validation test plans & methodologies, and to ensure high quality test coverage on the first revision of silicon. - Collaborate with chip/module/system and FW teams to understand the functional & performance goals of the design. - Provide technical guidance on validation implementation and execution on pre and post silicon (FPGA and silicon). - Have strong communication skills, excellent multi-functional capabilities to influence and achieve best outcomes for all involved.

BS and relevant industry experience

Industry experience in Silicon Validation

Experience with validation methodologies such as creating test plans, debugging, stress testing, and FMEA of IPs and/or full-chip

10+ years of relevant industry experience

A proven record and keen interest to devise functional and stress tests to “break the chip”

Advanced experience with validation environments, including pre-silicon (e.g. FPGA) and post-silicon validation, scripting, test automation and regression.

Fluency and working knowledge of SOC & System architecture/design

Knowledge of industry standard interfaces, such as I2C, SPMI, USB, SPI, MIPI

Validation experience with relatively complex digital and/or mixed signal chips

Bare-metal firmware or ROM code development experience

Design verification experience

Should be a phenomenal teammate with excellent social and communications skills and the passion to take on diverse challenges

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