Lead Systems Validation Engineer
Apple
Summary
Description
Minimum Qualifications
Key Qualifications
- 8 or more years' experience with modern CPU architectures
- Strong understanding of CPU architecture, microarchitecture, and system design
- Extensive validation experience beyond individual CPUs to the entire platform with deep architectural understanding of server based technology and components such as board, CPU, RAS, memory, storage, networking, high speed link technology
- Large scale validation of individual systems through multi-system qualification comprising multiple interconnected servers focusing on performance, power and inter-connectivity
- Range of validation experience and knowledge in silicon bring-up, firmware, OS & Kernel, drivers, margining, characterization
- Ability to analyze architectural system definitions to drive test planning, design and analysis for full traceability from requirements to test artifacts
- Understanding the nature of production workloads typically run by SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) teams such as that of block storage, object storage, compute, and databases
- Analyze the interaction between applications and subsystem devices
- Experience with validation automation and implementation
- Understanding of object oriented programming, data structures, algorithms with experience in Python, C and/or Shell scripting
- Experience with protocol analyzers. Oscilloscope and signal generators a plus.
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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