SoC Embedded Software Engineer

Overview

Silicon Engineering Group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. You’ll enable Apple products by ensuring Apple Silicon SoCs 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 all Apple devices. Together, we will enable our customers to do the things they love with their devices.

As a SoC Embedded Software Engineer you will craft and implement embedded software for System on a Chip (SoC) bringup and test. You will write software for Apple silicon in a bare metal environment, working closely with cross functional teams such as chip design, silicon validation, and product engineering, to bringup new silicon and ensure the quality and performance of every device manufactured.

You will design, develop, and support high quality, scalable software implementations that enable rapid device test and characterization of Apple Silicon SoCs in an RTOS runtime environment. You will engage with new Apple Silicon SoCs from pre-silicon bringup to mass production and beyond. You will write software to exercise and stress test various IP blocks and subsystems for Apple SoCs within a resource constrained environment.

Focus areas could include the DRAM interface, CPU cores and caches, digital media blocks, graphics and compute accelerators, or I/O interfaces such as USB, PCIE, or SPI. A ideal candidate will have experience with SoC bringup, validation, and reliability testing along with familiarity with at least one of these SoC functional blocks. Knowledge of SoC test strategies for DRAM or Burn-in would be helpful.

You will also have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with all phases of operations teams from the wafer fab all the product assembly and final test. You will have a direct impact on Apple’s future products by ensuring world-class solutions to demanding test and engineering challenges.

• 2-3 years of embedded software development experience
• Expert embedded C programmer
• Experience debugging code on embedded devices
• Experience working with an RTOS based software environment
• Proven ability in problem solving and debugging complex issues
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts and issues
• Experience delivering high volume, production quality software
• Exposure to SoC bringup and bare metal programming
• Experience with DRAM initialization, calibration, and test methodologies
• Experience with digital video processing for example JPEG, MPEG, H.264
• Experience with board level I/O for example USB, I2C, SPI, MIPI, Display Port
• Experience with RTOS internals implementation and operation
• Exposure to modern processor designs including caches, virtual memory, and instruction pipelines
• Experience reading and writing ARM assembly language code
• Experience with multi-core processors and thread synchronization
• Experience with computational accelerators such as for vector or matrix math operations
• Experience using laboratory equipment such as logic analyzers and oscilloscopes
• Experience working with board schematics and debugging at the hardware level

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $147,400 and $272,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.

Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including:
Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to…