GPU Silicon Prototype Engineer
Oct 4, 2026 Austin, TX
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Do your life's best work here - with the whole world watching. At Apple, new ideas and complex challenges have a remarkable ability to transform into excellent products, services, and customer experiences in a relatively short period.
Join Apple's GPU team and contribute to the creation of graphics processing technology that powers millions of devices worldwide. As part of our growing team, you'll work on pre-silicon validation of innovative GPU microarchitectures, spanning from mobile devices to high-performance computers. Your role will involve exploring the intricate architectural details that drive exceptional graphics performance. Together, we'll empower our customers to enjoy all the features they love on their devices!
Description
As a Silicon Prototype Engineer in Apple's GPU Design Verification and Validation organization, you'll ensure our complex GPU designs and software meet Apple's quality standards through comprehensive hardware/software platform testing. Working with the complete software stack, you'll validate designs that enable flawless execution of demanding graphics workloads.
Your technical contributions will include:
- Developing verification environments using SystemVerilog, C++, and scripting languages to validate GPU functional behavior, performance, and power characteristics
- Running development graphics driver and test applications on development hardware systems, triaging failures to their respective teams
- Building automated systems for GPU model deployment and testing on hardware platforms
- Creating and driving detailed verification plans in collaboration with multi-functional teams
- Working closely with power and performance validation teams to optimize designs
- Leading debug efforts for issues discovered in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases
This role offers significant growth opportunities as you advance within the team and take on increasing technical leadership responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
Experience scripting for system automation
Ability to collaborate under tight schedules
Excellent planning, collaboration, and communication abilities
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
Coursework or experience in computer architecture
Coursework or experience in SystemVerilog and C/C++
Coursework or experience with scripting
Join Apple's GPU team and contribute to the creation of graphics processing technology that powers millions of devices worldwide. As part of our growing team, you'll work on pre-silicon validation of innovative GPU microarchitectures, spanning from mobile devices to high-performance computers. Your role will involve exploring the intricate architectural details that drive exceptional graphics performance. Together, we'll empower our customers to enjoy all the features they love on their devices!
Description
As a Silicon Prototype Engineer in Apple's GPU Design Verification and Validation organization, you'll ensure our complex GPU designs and software meet Apple's quality standards through comprehensive hardware/software platform testing. Working with the complete software stack, you'll validate designs that enable flawless execution of demanding graphics workloads.
Your technical contributions will include:
- Developing verification environments using SystemVerilog, C++, and scripting languages to validate GPU functional behavior, performance, and power characteristics
- Running development graphics driver and test applications on development hardware systems, triaging failures to their respective teams
- Building automated systems for GPU model deployment and testing on hardware platforms
- Creating and driving detailed verification plans in collaboration with multi-functional teams
- Working closely with power and performance validation teams to optimize designs
- Leading debug efforts for issues discovered in both pre-silicon and post-silicon phases
This role offers significant growth opportunities as you advance within the team and take on increasing technical leadership responsibilities.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
Experience scripting for system automation
Ability to collaborate under tight schedules
Excellent planning, collaboration, and communication abilities
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
Coursework or experience in computer architecture
Coursework or experience in SystemVerilog and C/C++
Coursework or experience with scripting
Additional Information
- Posted: Oct 4, 2026