Apple Silicon Technologies group is looking to design and manufacture next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processors and SoCs, ensuring Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle tasks. The silicon validation team specifically needs to ensure high-quality functional products, like the Apple Neural Engine, are delivered quickly to millions of customers.
Requirements
- Strong software skills in C/C++.
- Experience with hardware/software interaction.
- Background in AI workloads, typical AI network topologies and AI workflows.
- Embedded software experience is a must.
- Device driver experience a plus.
- Previous experience in HW Accelerators for Neural Networks is a plus.
- Curiosity about writing software to validate the correct operation of hardware.
Responsibilities
- perform block level, system-level and performance oriented validation of Apple Neural Engine.
- Work with logic designers to understand the operation of Apple Neural Engine at the block level, system level and use-case level.
- Investigate new use cases, system-level operations, performance requirements and cross-functional features
- Develop low-level software to validate functionality, conformance, and performance of Apple Neural Engine
- Work with other members of the validation team to incorporate your tests into system-level tests.
- Bring-up and debug devices on new hardware platforms.
Other
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in relevant field and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field.
- Curiosity about writing software to validate the correct operation of hardware.
