Wireless SOC FW Engineer

Would you like to join Apple’s growing Wireless Connectivity Silicon team? Our wireless System on a Chip (SoC) organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development with a particular emphasis on highly energy efficient design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by a world-class vertically integrated engineering team spanning RF/Analog architecture and design, Systems/PHY/MAC architecture and design, VLSI/RTL design and integration, Emulation, Design Verification, Test and Validation, and FW/SW engineering.

Description

In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a silicon design group with a critical impact on getting functional wireless products to hundreds of millions of customers. Responsible for crafting and implementing embedded firmware for SoC bring up and wireless connectivity enablement. You will work closely with the Software Engineering teams ensuring the quality of their firmware for manufacturability. You will be a core member of a Wireless SoC firmware team, with emphasis on hardware and system bring-up, driver implementation, developing protocol stack and supporting other teams interacting within a Wireless SoC group.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum requirement of a Bachelors degree.

Preferred Qualifications

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.
Knowledgeable of industry standards for wireless communications such as Bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, UWB.
Comfortable with at least one of the scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.
Excellent communication skills – both written and oral.