Firmware Engineer

San Diego, California, United States
Hardware

Summary

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Role Number:200511706
As a firmware engineer in the Wireless Connectivity Silicon team, we will be responsible for the design, development, and bringup of innovative wireless silicon for application in Apple’s products!

Key Qualifications

  • We are looking for an extensive technical background in one or more of the following:
  • Strong embedded SW fundamentals, including knowledge of design and development flows, real-time constraints, concurrency, and multi-processor systems, caching and virtual memory.
  • Familiarity with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development, clock and power management.
  • Experience with configuration and release management, continuous integration, and regression testing.
  • Strong understanding of design strategies for maintainability, scalability, and code reuse.
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and oral.

Description

PHY firmware architecture and design, including calibrations, realtime processing flows, collaborate with RF hardware, microcode, and MAC layer. Develop highly efficient designs delivering outstanding performance, minimizing power and memory footprints while meeting hard-realtime latency requirements. Debug realtime systems with limited visibility, working hands-on with development boards and lab equipment. Collaborate with Radio, MAC, and Systems engineering teams to architect, define and implement innovative algorithms, calibrations, and protocols. Support pre-silicon validation efforts, including simulation, emulation, and FPGA prototyping. Develop SoC test and calibration capabilities for chip, module, and product factories. Support post-silicon bringup, validation, performance characterization, system integration and debug.

Education & Experience

BSEE plus 3 plus years of experience.

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits