Bring Up Engineer, Core OS

Apple

11h

About The Position

The Core Platform Bring-up team within Apple’s CoreOS organization seeks a software engineer to work on next-generation iOS device technology. The role focuses on bringing up, verifying, and debugging new hardware platforms for Apple products, including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac. The engineer develops firmware and drivers, contributes to product features and industry specifications, and participates in hardware platform specification work. The position spans the full hardware bring-up lifecycle, from pre-silicon simulation through first boot on real silicon. It involves developing low-level firmware, debugging hardware and software issues on simulators and in the lab, collaborating with silicon design, driver, security, and validation teams, and reviewing hardware specifications before silicon is built. The engineer takes end-to-end ownership of platform features and builds tools and automation to improve future bring-up efforts. The team describes its environment as supporting product innovation, rapid iteration, and autonomy.

Requirements

3–5 years of proven experience developing and debugging systems-level or embedded software.
Strong proficiency in C or C++.
Comfort reading hardware documentation.
Solid grasp of computer science fundamentals, operating systems, and computer architecture.
Excellent troubleshooting skills and a passion for quality.
Ability to work with ambiguity and take ownership of a problem end to end.
Willingness to ask for help and learn from others.
Commitment to encouraging an open and inclusive work environment.
Strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated interest in embedded and low-level systems development.
Experience bringing up or porting an operating system on new hardware.
Experience writing embedded device drivers.
Proficiency with JTAG and other hardware debuggers.
Familiarity with ARM processor architecture.
Experience with hardware simulation or FPGA-based emulation.
Scripting experience in Python for test and automation.

Responsibilities

Bring up new hardware platforms, from pre-silicon simulation through first boot on real silicon.
Develop and debug low-level firmware that starts Apple products.
Debug hardware and software issues at the deepest levels of the stack, on simulators and in the lab.
Partner with silicon design, driver, security, and validation teams throughout the bring-up lifecycle.
Influence hardware design by reviewing specifications before silicon is built.
Drive platform features from concept through delivery, taking end-to-end ownership.
Build tools and automation to make future bring-up work faster.
Support bring-up, verification, and debugging of new hardware platforms for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac.
Develop firmware and drivers.
Drive product features and functional and industry specifications.
Participate in specification work for hardware platforms.