Silicon Validation Software Engineer - High Speed IO Validation

About the position

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 us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. 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.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the SOC Silicon Validation team doing system level validation.
• Develop software to validate high speed IO IP blocks.
• Work closely with SiVal, FW, Architecture and Design teams.
• Define validation plans.
• Bring up and debug SOC issues.
• Coordinate to run tests.

Requirements

• Experience with Embedded systems.
• Familiarity with SoC and System architecture.
• Knowledge and experience working with board schematics.
• Experience with using test equipment and analyzers (USB, PCIe, DP, I2C).
• High knowledge and experience with High Speed interfaces such as USB-PD, USB2.0, USB3.0, Thunderbolt 3, USB4.0, PCIE or DP.
• Proven experience in silicon bring-up, debugging, validation, and characterization.
• In-depth understanding of PHY design, architecture, adaptations, and equalization techniques.
• Strong hands-on software programming skills with a focus on embedded systems; proficiency in C programming is essential.
• Skilled in scripting, with a preference for Python, to automate testing and data analysis.