At Apple, creative thinking and thoughtful insights quickly transform into extraordinary products, and the company is looking for a firmware engineer to design, develop, and bringup innovative wireless silicon for various Apple products
Requirements
- Low-level embedded firmware and especially wireless PHY-layer firmware architecture and design
- Calibration algorithms, noise/interference processing, realtime processing flows, interfacing with RF hardware, power management/optimization, microcode, and/or MAC layer knowledge
- Hands-on experience and solid understanding of wireless systems and protocols such as LTE/NR/WiFi/Bluetooth
- Strong embedded SW fundamentals, including knowledge of design and development-flows, real-time constraints, concurrency, multi-processor systems, caching and virtual memory
- Deep understanding of data structures, object-oriented design, and system architecture in an embedded environment
- Strong software engineering skills including design, development (using C, C++), scripting (Python), and debugging
- Familiarity with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development, clock and power management
Responsibilities
- Design and development of efficient solutions to deliver extraordinary performance with minimal power and memory footprints, all while under hard-realtime latency constraints
- Debugging real-time systems with limited visibility, working hands-on with development boards and lab equipment
- Collaboration with Radio, MAC, and Systems engineering teams to architect, define and implement innovative algorithms, calibrations, and protocols
- Support of pre and post-silicon validation, bringup, and performance characterization
- Develop SoC test and calibration capabilities for chip, module, and product factories
Other
- BS with 3 plus years of industry experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills to address technical issues during design, development and maintenance phases
- Excellent communication skills - both written and oral
- Highly organized, motivated and passionate about driving results
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services
