Wireless SoC Firmware Engineer

5 days ago


Sunnyvale, California, United States Apple Full time

Wireless SoC Firmware Engineer Role

At Apple, we're looking for a skilled Wireless SoC Firmware Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our Wireless Connectivity Silicon team, you'll be responsible for crafting and implementing embedded firmware for SoC bring up and wireless connectivity enablement.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement firmware for wireless connectivity enablement and SoC bring up.
  • Work closely with Software Engineering teams to ensure the quality of firmware for manufacturability.
  • 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.
  • Support post-silicon bringup, validation, performance characterization, system integration, and debug.

Requirements:

  • BS required.
  • Strong background in embedded FW development using C and assembly languages, familiarity with ARM CPUs and its internals.
  • Experience with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development.
  • Solid understanding of basic embedded concepts such as RTOS, concurrency, multi-processor systems.
  • Experience in developing low-level drivers for peripherals, performing HW bring-up.
  • Knowledgeable of wireless communication protocols, understanding of MAC/PHY/Radio layers is desirable.
  • Knowledgeable of industry standards for wireless communications, such as Bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, UWB is a plus.
  • Comfortable with at least one of the scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.
  • Excellent communication skills - both written and oral.

What We Offer:

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition.
  • Base pay range for this role is between $121,900 and $183,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  • Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.

Apple is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.



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