HID Firmware Engineer
At Apple, we build amazing products that allow millions of people do things they never imagined! Are you looking for a place where people from different backgrounds get together to develop technological breakthroughs? Then come join our team!
We are a team of creative, energetic, and passionate firmware engineers responsible for next-generation touch and force sensing technologies across Apple’s portfolio, including Camera Control, AirPods, Pencil Pro, and more. We are seeking dedicated individuals who have a passion for designing firmware for embedded processors, prototyping concepts, investigating new technologies, and delivering high-quality products.
As a HID firmware engineer at Apple, you will work on new products using a mix of custom and off-the-shelf sensing chipsets and processors from concept through production. You’ll partner with hardware, algorithms, software, and quality engineers to develop incredible touch and force sensing technology.
A successful candidate in this role will:
- Bring up new sensing chipsets and processors from initial specification to production, work with cross-functional teams and lead technical opens to closure
- Quickly debug and effectively close out system issues related to your firmware and implement and maintain complex firmware designs.
- Write and test clean, easy to understand, robust, and sustainable code tailored for embedded systems
- Negotiate, specify, and document communication protocols, system states, and FW/SW feature requirements with various teams
- Contribute to system architecture, power management, and hardware design reviews and collaborate with Quality Engineering teams to inform and craft their white - box testing.
- Bachelors Degree in CS/CE/EECS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Ability to write in C or C++ for Embedded Systems
- Experience working on microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
- Experience interfacing with sensors such as strain, capacitance, pressure, etc.
- Understanding of embedded communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, Bluetooth, etc.
- Experience implementing firmware in bare metal and RTOS environments
- Strong board bring-up and debug skills
- Debugging skills with JTAG, Oscilloscopes, and/or Logic analyzers
- Experience with one or more 32-bit microcontroller cores (ARM, MSP430, MicroChip)
- Development experience on Unix, Linux, or Mac OS is preferred
- Familiarity with touch sensing technologies is a plus
- Familiarity with other languages such as Python, Objective-C, or Swift
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