SoC Embedded Software Engineer for Factory

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!

At Apple, we go beyond the industry norm and demonstrate creativity in problem solving, ability to think dynamically and outside of standard convention, and adapt quickly to new technical areas. We promote innovation and new technology. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision, Apple TV, AirPods, HomePod and a multitude of groundbreaking Accessories. We have done the same with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices - strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product!

Joining Apple as an Embedded Software Engineer 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 production boot loader environment. You will work closely with the Product Engineering teams to bring up new silicon on device and ensure the SoC quality when manufactured.

• Design and implementation of firmware for SoC bring up, validation, and test.
• Identify, analyze and root-cause SoC failures in the factory.
• Enhance and maintain the development and debug environments, tools and methodologies.
• Support of functional test environment for device characterization, failure analysis, and mass production.
• Generate post-silicon directed diagnostic and stress test cases and debugging failure cases using multiple HW and low level SW platforms.
• Use of soft skills and data driven approach to effectively collaborate and participate in multi-team discussions and decision-making.Bachelors degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field. Minimum of 3+ years of software development/validation experienceEmbedded software experience, including debugging and characterization Experience with embedded C programming Experience on SoC silicon bring up/power up Experience with problem solving and delivery of high volume and high quality SW Experience debugging boot loader is a plus Experience using laboratory equipment (e.g., logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope) is a plus Strong communication skills