Silicon Validation Software Engineer - IO and Thermal Control Validation

About the position

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

• Develop software to validate and debug communication and thermal blocks in Apple SoCs.
• Work with other teams to bring up and debug SoC's issues.
• Coordinate to run tests.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in low level software development in a linux/unix environment.
• Proficiency in C/C++ programming.
• General knowledge of computer architecture and operating system.
• Knowledge and skill in Python programming.
• Experience with communication blocks (RS232, SPI, I2C, SDIO, USB, PCI).
• Experience with power management, voltage and/or thermal monitoring, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, performance throttling.
• Familiar with digital design, design verification, and silicon and analog characterization.
• Experience with assembly languages, and scripting languages.
• Experience with using test equipment, analyzers and debugger.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• A range of discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
• Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards.
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Potential for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• Relocation assistance.