Wireless SOC FW Engineer

**Role Number:** 200657593-3543

**Summary**

Would you like to join Apple’s growing wireless silicon development team? Our wireless 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. 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 quickly.

**Description**

As an SoC Firmware Engineer, you will be a core member of a Wireless SoC firmware team, with emphasis on hardware and system bring-up, drivers, network stack and support of other teams interacting within a Wireless SoC group. Responsible for crafting and implementing embedded software for System on a Chip (SoC) bring up and test. You will work closely with the Software Engineering team ensuring the quality of their firmware for manufacturability.

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's degree.

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Strong background in embedded software development using C and assembly languages, familiarity with ARM CPUs and RTOS.

+ Experience in performing low-level drivers and HW bring-up and validation on FPGA and SoC Silicon hardware platform, using test tools, and interacting with HW and SoC design teams.

+ Experience writing scripts in languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.

+ Experience implementing diagnostics, manufacturing tests, and protocol compliance test software.

+ Experience with power optimization implementation and related debugging in firmware.

+ Experience with industry standards for wireless communications such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or UWB at MAC/PHY level and FW implementation.