Embedded Software Developer
Apple
Software Engineering
Cupertino, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Summary
Posted:
Role Number:200568651
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly sophisticated challenges? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, we will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices! Joining Apple as an Embedded Software Developer for SoC Factory Support, you will craft and implement embedded software for System on a Chip (SoC) bring up and test. You will write software for Apple silicon in a bare metal environment and work closely with the Silicon Validation and Software Engineering teams to bring up new silicon and ensure the quality of every device when manufactured.
Description
- Design and implementation of firmware for SoC bring up, validation, and test. - Enhancing and maintaining the development and debug environments, tools and methodologies. - Support of functional test environment for device characterization, failure analysis, and mass production. - Generating post-silicon directed diagnostic and stress test cases and debugging failure cases using multiple HW and low level SW platforms. - Leveraging and porting design verification and silicon validation tests to enable improved test coverage of IP in silicon test. - Developing software to confirm that the silicon behaves as architected under the various supported modes. - Developing targeted functional tests to screen failures identified during the product lifecycle.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS with minimum of 3 years of software development/validation experience
- Strong debugging and problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with embedded test software at manufacturing sites is a plus
- Scripting experience with one or more of Python, Perl
- Experience using laboratory equipment (e.g., logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope) is a plus
- RTOS, BSP and applications experience is helpful.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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