SoC Validation Engineer

Apple Inc

Austin, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apple, Apple Hardware, Computer Architecture, Customer Experience, Data Analysis, Data Management, Debugging Skills, Debugging Tools, Functional Testing, High Level Architecture (HLA), IP (Internet Protocol), Logic Design, Memory Hardware, Problem Solving Skills, Product Engineering, Prototyping, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Engineering, System Test, System Validation, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Systems Analysis, Test Plan/Schedule, Test Scripts, Testing, Validation Plan
LOCATION
Austin, TX
POSTED
30+ days ago

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product.

As part of Silicon Validation Team, you will focus on silicon validation, debug and root cause related to anomalous behaviors using system work-loads. (Circuit marginalities, process-design interactions, logic bugs).

You will be joining a team of engineers who is responsible for validating Apple SoCs with system workloads.

  • In this role, you will be working closely with functional test writers to understand high level architectures of each IP blocks within Apple SoCs and define applicable validation plans. You will then execute such system tests, through scripts/automation framework, on large volume of prototype SoCs across Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) corners.

  • Looking for any potential issues, as well as characterizing the functional voltage (lvcc) of SoCs under such workloads. When issue occurs, you will be the first line of debugger to triage issues and isolate/bucketize failures.

  • Work with domain experts to define DoEs, come up with root cause theories, and test possible workarounds. In addition, you will characterize functional voltages (lvcc) of SoCs under system workloads, analyze data across voltage domains, provide feedbacks to PE (product engineers) to define product operation voltages as well as recommend contents to testing/screening environment.

  • Collaborate with downstream testing teams (SoC test teams, system test teams, etc) to facilitate resolving issues happening in their environment.

A minimum of a bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field

Experience with SoC bring up.

Experience with System debug.

Computer architectures (cache, memory hierarchy, data pipelines) and logic design.

Experience with script language such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.

About the Company

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Apple Inc

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs