Apple Silicon Technologies group is looking for individuals to help design and manufacture next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processors and SoCs. The role involves ensuring Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle tasks, and enabling customers to do what they love with their devices. The team's goal is to find corner-case hardware bugs by breaking Apple Silicon with a bare metal system level SW suite.
Requirements
- SOC and CPU knowledge
- Micro-architecture
- Memory hierarchy
- Interrupt and DMA
- Clock and Power Gating
- System level understanding
- Experience with SoC bringup
- Experienced C/C++ and Assembly language programmer
- Expertise in Embedded programming with an understanding of hardware-software interfaces
- Knowledge of Hardware and Software debug tools and methods
Responsibilities
- Write SoC and CPU directed and random tests
- Debug issues pre-silicon or post-silicon
- Develop and maintain system-level SW platform
- Lead SW development and execution plans of SoC projects
- Work with designers and architects to accomplish validation goals
- Engaging with other teams at Apple to develop validation strategies based on product needs
Other
- Bachelor's degree in silicon validation software engineering or related field with 10 years of experience.
- Experience with scopes is a plus
