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Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.\nDescription\nAPPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino , California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Review Architecture and Design Specifications. Extract design features and develop attributes and verification plans. Work with designers to verify DFT implementation and run various checks. Implement test benches, assertions, checkers, generating directed/constrained random tests. Debug failures, run RTL simulations/power aware gate level simulations, supervise bugs, and close coverage. Build custom testbenches with power aware designs. Generate Collaterals and reports for the test. 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