Software Development Engineer - Firmware

Apple • Cupertino, CA

22h

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather
to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people
once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the
diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs
through everything we do.

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various
unanticipated locations throughout the USA. 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 assists internal SW/HW integration
and initial chip and product bring-up efforts. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay
is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range.
This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role.
The base pay range for this role is between $159,744 - $220,900/yr and your base
pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required: Developing embedded firmware running on ARM CPUs using C and assembly languages.
• Utilizing real-time operating systems (RTOS) services including signaling and locking mechanisms to design and develop robust firmware in a concurrent, multi-processor system.
• Developing low-level device drivers for peripherals including SMB, I2C, CAN, UART, and GPIO.
• Developing firmware in a resource constrained system with limited memory and hard real time requirements.
• Developing firmware in a bare metal environment.
• Utilizing debuggers including GDB/GNU debug embedded firmware.

Nice To Haves

• N/A

Responsibilities

• 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 assists internal SW/HW integration and initial chip and product bring-up efforts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees