SWE - Pre-Silicon Framebuffer Driver Engineer, GGD

London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Software and Services

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 35
Role Number:200470219
Apple’s GGD (Graphics, GPU and Display) Software team provides the graphics software foundation for all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Watch. Our responsibilities encompass the frameworks, developer tools, and hardware drivers for the GPU and Display devices for all of Apple’s hardware.

Key Qualifications

  • Excellent programming skills and knowledge of C/C++
  • Development experience on Linux or macOS
  • Excellent software design, problem solving and debugging skills
  • Experience using and implementing general operating system concepts and strong kernel-mode device driver development skills
  • Experience with systems engineering or low-level hardware, firmware and driver programming

Description

The Apple Framebuffer Driver team develops the display software driver for Apple's high performance proprietary hardware technologies on all products. We are looking for an engineer who is highly driven, curious, collaborative, and passionate about being on the cutting edge of new display technology. The successful candidate will be a high-energy problem solver with a passion for excellence and quality and a track record for getting the job done.

Education & Experience

MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience

Additional Requirements

  • Experience with embedded systems
  • Experience with parallel and asynchronous processing
  • Experience with hardware bring-up and debugging
  • Knowledge of scaling, filtering, and video formats a plus
  • Knowledge of display technology a plus
  • Proficiency with Python a plus
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