Pre-Silicon Infrastructure Software Engineer, Core OS
About The Position
The Core Operating Systems group is an essential part of Apple's brand, ensuring the OS is inseparable from each device's identity. This group is committed to building fully integrated operating systems that combine hardware, software, and apps into a single Apple experience, developing groundbreaking technologies such as iOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS. The Pre-Silicon Evolution team within Apple's CoreOS organization is seeking dedicated software engineers to develop software infrastructure and tooling for Apple Silicon SoCs. This team operates at the intersection of hardware and software, pushing the boundaries of full-system, pre-silicon simulation to enable software development for Apple products during their earliest development phases. The software tooling and cloud infrastructure developed by this team is utilized across Apple's hardware and software organizations to design technologies that facilitate the development and testing of both hardware and software features for future Apple products, ensuring seamless integration before manufacturing.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure-focused or embedded software engineering roles
- High proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience releasing Python-based tools, libraries, and services
- Backend development experience using Django or Flask, including designing and implementing REST APIs, with experience working with SQL-based databases
- Understanding of Unix concepts, networking concepts, and shell scripting
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferably for embedded software)
- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to learn rapidly, and capacity to debug complex distributed systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent industry experience required
Nice To Haves
- Experience in embedded software, macOS kernel and driver internals, and knowledge of Arm SoC architecture
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration for deployment and management
- Experience in full platform simulation/FPGA technologies
- Experience developing applications using SwiftUI/Swift
- Familiarity using AI tools similar to Claude Code/Codex
Responsibilities
- Crafting a simulation environment
- Defining bring up processes
- Creating new tools and services used across the organization for a broad range of upcoming Apple devices
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
