Firmware Engineer

San Diego, California


Employer: Apple
Industry: Hardware
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

Summary
As a firmware engineer in the Wireless Connectivity Silicon team, we will be responsible for the design, development, and bringup of innovative wireless silicon for application in Apple's products!

Key Qualifications
We are looking for an extensive technical background in one or more of the following:

Strong embedded SW fundamentals, including knowledge of design and development flows, real-time constraints, concurrency, and multi-processor systems, caching and virtual memory.

Familiarity with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development, clock and power management.

Experience with configuration and release management, continuous integration, and regression testing.

Strong understanding of design strategies for maintainability, scalability, and code reuse.

Excellent communications skills - both written and oral.

Description
PHY firmware architecture and design, including calibrations, realtime processing flows, collaborate with RF hardware, microcode, and MAC layer.

Develop highly efficient designs delivering outstanding performance, minimizing power and memory footprints while meeting hard-realtime latency requirements.

Debug realtime systems with limited visibility, working hands-on with development boards and lab equipment.

Collaborate with Radio, MAC, and Systems engineering teams to architect, define and implement innovative algorithms, calibrations, and protocols.

Support pre-silicon validation efforts, including simulation, emulation, and FPGA prototyping.

Develop SoC test and calibration capabilities for chip, module, and product factories.

Support post-silicon bringup, validation, performance characterization, system integration and debug.

Education & Experience
Bachelor's Degree
Minimum 10 years of experience

Additional Requirements
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Deep understanding of wireless systems, PHY layer operations, digital signal processing, Tx/Rx performance metrics.
  • Experience in Wireless SoC firmware development
  • Experience with WiFi, Bluetooth, or similar wireless technologies.

Created: 2024-04-28
Reference: 200451097
Country: United States
State: California
City: San Diego
ZIP: 92109

About Apple

Founded in: 1976
Number of Employees: 154000


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