Apple · 1 day ago
Software Development Engineer - Firmware
Cupertino, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$160K/yr - $221K/yr
3+ years expApple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. The Software Development Engineer - Firmware will work closely with the product software team to provide system-level API and firmware functionality, implement new product features, and support the SoC design team during integration and testing.
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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
Qualification
Required
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 developing embedded firmware running on ARM CPUs using C and assembly languages
1 year of experience with utilizing real-time operating systems (RTOS) services including signaling and locking mechanisms to design and develop robust firmware in a concurrent, multi-processor system
1 year of experience with developing low-level device drivers for peripherals including SMB, I2C, CAN, UART, and GPIO
1 year of experience with developing firmware in a resource constrained system with limited memory and hard real time requirements
1 year of experience with developing firmware in a bare metal environment
1 year of experience with utilizing debuggers including GDB/GNU debug embedded firmware
Company
Apple
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10001+ employees
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