Operating System Silicon Validation Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

74d

About The Position

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 dedication to leave the world better than we found it. As a member of the Apple SOC Silicon Validation Team you will use your knowledge of SOC/IP design and test automation to find silicon bugs with iOS, macOS and other silicon validation workloads on a large population of development boards, silicon validation boards, and prototype Apple products. Leverage automation to run varied hardware stress tests on prototype devices while contributing to test automation development that supports the test creation, execution, and result reporting for silicon validation. Follow up on software and hardware failures using the bug tracking system, supporting requests for information or custom experiments to find root-cause. Create new hardware stress tests by combining, modifying or creating new workloads, using your software and chip architecture knowledge.

Requirements

• Strong Computer systems, SoC and CPU architecture knowledge.
• Experience in test content creation and test automation infrastructure development for consumer electronic hardware (watch, phone, pads, computers, ARVR).
• OS test experience, iOS/macOS/Android/Windows.
• Expertise in at least one scripting language such as Python, Perl, or TCL.
• Desire to develop and execute test plans, analyze test logs/results, and report status.
• SoC validation experience.
• Operating system, boot loader, kernel and device driver structure knowledge.
• Debug methodology and troubleshooting development hardware skills.

Responsibilities

• Use knowledge of SOC/IP design and test automation to find silicon bugs.
• Leverage automation to run varied hardware stress tests on prototype devices.
• Contribute to test automation development that supports test creation, execution, and result reporting for silicon validation.
• Follow up on software and hardware failures using the bug tracking system.
• Support requests for information or custom experiments to find root-cause.
• Create new hardware stress tests by combining, modifying or creating new workloads.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees