SoC Performance and QoS Validation Engineer

Summary

Posted:May 06, 2025

Role Number:200603375

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! Join a team of expert software engineers that translate architecture specifications and use case descriptions for new and emerging workloads including Machine Learning (ML) to test scenarios on Silicon on Apple designed SOCs.

Description

-You will gain insights into the ground breaking SOC IP and chip-level architecture that powers Apple Products (iPhone/iPad/Macs/Watch/TV) -You will help validate the block level and system level performance of various subsystems in the SoC, and the QoS architecture of the SoC -You will collaborate with multi-functional teams including architecture, hardware design, and software teams to develop testplans, debug, and correlate silicon data. -You will maintain and improve the internally developed Real Time Operating System (RTOS) that executes on the AP Clusters and IO Co-Processors, to enable QOS validation and to validate Power management features -You will write low-level driver code in a RTOS to configure and run various sub-systems (e.g. display, cameras, video encoders/decoders, fabrics, power management) -You will develop system software to validate the power management features of the SOC -You will develop and maintain latency critical software to identify and root-cause complex performance/QoS issues -You will help bringup prototypes and explore power and performance of bare metal workloads -You will acquire valuable software skills writing a bare-metal RTOS, developing and debugging device drivers/RTOS using lldb/Xcode, and modeling real customer usecases

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in relevant field and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert in C and C++, knowledge of assembly is desired
• Strong understanding of ARM specification, computer architecture, system architecture, SoC architecture, and memory systems
• Knowledge of Atomic operations, memory barriers
• Experienced with embedded systems programming (e.g. bare-metal, RTOS, kernel, driver programming)
• Experience with silicon bring-up and embedded software debug
• Experience with pipelining, bus architectures, and protocols is preferred
• Experienced with performance benchmarking and high-performance architectures
• Strong understanding of common data structures, algorithms, Operating Systems concepts, and multi-threaded programming
• Skilled at scripting – Python, bash
• Experience with some data analysis and data visualization tools is preferred

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 $143,100 and $264,200, 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.