Wireless SOC FW Engineer
Apple
San Diego, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 30, 2024
Summary
Posted:
Role Number:200576117
Would you like to join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team? Our wireless SOC organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development with a particular emphasis on highly energy efficient design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by a world-class vertically integrated engineering team spanning RF/Analog architecture and design, Systems/PHY/MAC architecture and design, VLSI/RTL design and integration, Emulation, Design Verification, Test and Validation, and FW/SW engineering. In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a silicon design group with a critical impact on getting functional wireless products to hundreds of millions of customers quickly. Responsible for crafting and implementing embedded software for System on a Chip (SoC) bring up and test. You will work closely with the Software Engineering team ensuring the quality of their firmware for manufacturability.
Description
As a SoC Firmware Engineer, the individual will be a core member of a Wireless SoC firmware team, with emphasis on hardware and system bring-up, drivers, network stack and support of other teams interacting within a Wireless SoC group. - Work closely with product SW team to provide system-level API and firmware functionality to meet product requirements. - Work closely with product test and protocol stack teams to resolve any issues arising as part of the product and interoperability testing - Implement new product features as part of the development of wireless protocol stacks, device drivers, and diagnostics. - Provide support to the SoC design team and assist internal SW/HW integration and initial chip and product bring-up efforts.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong background in embedded software development using C and assembly languages, familiarity with ARM CPUs and RTOS.
- Experience in performing low-level drivers and HW bring-up and validation on FPGA and SoC Silicon hardware platform, using test tools, and interacting with HW and SoC design teams.
- Experience writing scripts in languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.
- Experience implementing diagnostics, manufacturing tests, and protocol compliance test software.
- Experience with power optimization implementation and related debugging in firmware is a plus.
- Experience with industry standards for wireless communications such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or UWB at MAC/PHY level and FW implementation is also highly desirable.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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