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# Graphics Emulation Engineer

- **Company:** Apple Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), 3D Computer Graphics Software, C++ (Programming Language), Microarchitecture, Software Debugging, Perl (Programming Language), Emulators, Hardware Platform Interface, Python (Programming Language), Ruby, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Hardware Acceleration, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/apple/graphics-emulation-engineer-f1b852

## About the Role

Excellent planning, collaboration, and communication abilities

Demonstrated ability to build emulation models, run tests on emulation machines, and debug issues in a schedule-oriented silicon design project with competing priorities

Ability to debug hardware issues from waveforms

Ability to interface emulation hardware with virtual systems, simulation environment, and silicon validation

Experience with DPI/transactors

Graphics knowledge; 3D graphics pipeline, OGL/OCL programming

Ability to collaborate under tight schedules

Excellent planning, collaboration, and communication abilities

Minimum Qualifications

BS + 3 years of relevant experience.

Experience with CPU and/or GPU architecture and micro architecture

Experience with writing synthesizable code

Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C/C++, Perl, Ruby, Python

## Description

As a Graphics Emulation Engineer in Apple's GPU Design Verification and Validation organization, you'll ensure our complex GPU designs meet Apple's quality standards through comprehensive hardware platform testing. You'll validate designs that enable seamless execution of demanding graphics workloads. You'll be responsible for supporting functional verification, power and performance analysis, implementation, and silicon validation by building emulation models, running both synthetic and real-world test cases on those emulation models, debugging and resolving issues, reporting status, and driving emulation and acceleration solutions from concept to silicon.

Responsibilities:

Running specified tests on appropriate emulation builds, debug issues, report status

Participating in debug of systems by capturing waveforms and writing triggers

Architecting builds for emulation

Bringing up and supporting regular builds of emulation models and debugging build issues

Interfacing emulation with virtual systems, simulation environments, and silicon validation

Leveraging emulation capabilities to accelerate silicon bring-up

Responding to and working with vendor field service/AEs to address simulation and emulation HW/SW issues

Working with pre-silicon validation teams to develop and implement support plans

Architect and implement transactors between software test bench and emulation hardware

Exploring and developing new technologies and methodologies to leverage simulation, emulation, and hardware acceleration for new applications

Creating automated verification flows for graphics verification

Reporting status.

This role offers significant growth opportunities as you advance within the team and take on increasing technical leadership responsibilities.