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Emulation Verification Engineer

Apple

Location

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, San Diego, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

8/19/2026

Compensation

Not listed

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.0% approval+30% YoY
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Job description

The role involves joining Apple's emulation team to focus on the creation, deployment, and support of advanced emulation environments for chip design. As a member of the Emulation verification team, you will utilize emulation for the verification of large Wireless SoCs and work with mixed signal models on the Palladium platform. This position requires collaboration across various disciplines and aims to deliver groundbreaking Apple products. The work includes porting designs onto the Palladium platform and executing detailed emulation test plans.

Requirements

  • BS degree and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
  • Experience with System Verilog, Verilog, or UVM
  • Experience in creating test benches from scratch at both block and system levels
  • Experience in regression management and triaging
  • Experience with bring up, debugging, and verification in emulation
  • Understanding of the tool flow from RTL to emulation
  • Good understanding of any standard emulator such as Palladium, Veloce, Zebu, or FPGA like Xilinx and Altera
  • Proven design verification or silicon validation skills
  • Experience in writing synthesizable SystemVerilog/Verilog code and SystemVerilog assertions
  • Experience with System Verilog verification environments including C/C++ DPI and UVM
  • Experience in scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or TCL
  • Excellent analytical and debugging skills
  • Hands-on usage of low power methodologies, preferably UPF based
  • Experience in UVM acceleration

Responsibilities

  • Utilize emulation for the verification of large Wireless SoCs
  • Port designs onto the Palladium platform
  • Execute detailed emulation test plans
  • Collaborate with various disciplines in chip design efforts
  • Support the creation and deployment of advanced emulation environments

Benefits

  • Employees at Apple are often offered comprehensive benefits that support physical and mental well-being—flexible medical plans, confidential counseling, onsite wellness centers at major campuses, and resources for fitness and daily life. Families typically receive fertility support, paid parental leave with gradual return, caregiving leave, and dependent-care guidance, while financial perks commonly include stock grants (with purchase discounts), 401(k) matching, and income-protection coverage. Employees also see robust time off, Apple University learning and tuition reimbursement, donation matching and paid volunteer hours, and deep product and partner discounts.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Apple Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

1,065

FY2026

Approval rate

99.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

9,221

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+30%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-35%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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