Silicon Validation Software Engineer Apple
San Diego, CA

Job Description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Are you passionate about changing the world? We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles. You will be joining a team of expert software engineers with diverse backgrounds (graphics, video encoding, video processing, file systems, CPUs and caching, kernel programming, embedded systems) to test Apple's next generation SoCs. As part of the silicon validation team you will develop or port test software to evaluate various functional blocks.

Strong programming skills in C/C++ Experienced with embedded software Assembly language programming skills a plus Experience with hardware/software interaction You have familiarity with computer/system/SoC architecture You have experience and/or are interested in writing code to test IO devices and/or functional units Linux driver or device driver experience an asset

* You will work closely with designers and architects to understand various functional blocks and their use-cases - You will integrate existing test software between various test environments - You will enhance the use of the test software to push the functional blocks to their limits - You will work with other groups and organizations to push these tests down into pre-silicon environments - You will debug and root-cause a variety of hardware and software issues

BS / MS / Ph.D in EE, CE, or CS is required