Embedded SW Engineer

Summary

Posted: Sep 12, 2024

Role Number:200567556

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. Come join a dedicated software team within Apple’s Silicon Engineering Group who’s sole mission is to ensure the DRAM that goes into your Apple product is not only functioning but long lasting. Haven’t done DRAM before? Not a problem. For our junior candidates if you can code in C, you will learn enough about the DRAM interface in this job such that you’ll become the software domain expert in DRAM bringup, including initialization and calibration along with a multitude of characterization tools that only our team creates and delivers for the entire company. For our more experienced candidates with DRAM experience, this is definitely the job for you! Regardless of experience, you will gain cross functional exposure as this role provides interaction opportunities with Chip Design, Design Validation, Silicon Validation, CoreOS iBoot, and silicon Test Engineering teams. Your work will touch every DRAM on every SoC-based product Apple makes. This includes iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and now Apple Silicon. Being Apple, we drive DRAM specs beyond JEDEC and lead the DRAM technology industry rather than follow it. Even though this is a software role, where you can develop and refine your coding skills, you will learn all about DRAM, its interface, how to characterize and how to debug. When issues arise, you will learn to determine if it’s a problem in our software, the manufacturing test flow, a physical or design flaw within the SoC or DRAM, a problem with thermals or even a bug in the compiler. The skills you will gain go well beyond embedded software development and not to mention becoming a DRAM domain expert while you’re at it.

Description

– Design and implementation of firmware for DRAM initialization, training, and characterization – Improving and maintaining the development and debug environments, tools and methodologies – Support of functional test environment for device characterization, failure analysis, and mass production – Developing software to prove that the silicon behaves as architected under the various supported modes – Developing targeted functional tests to screen failures identified during the product lifecycle – Work with silicon designers on proof of concept features.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 0 years of experience
• Proficiency in C programming
• A real passion for embedded software development

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in development of multi-threaded software within embedded RTOS
• Experience with Linux Kernel programming (school projects and/or internships)
• Experience using laboratory equipment (e.g., logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope)
• Familiarity and/or interest in DRAM – LPDDR4/LPDDR5 concepts

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $111,342 and $183,600 annualized, 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 employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: 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. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.