2 days ago
Cupertino, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Analyze system-level hardware and software issues across multiple teams and technical domains.
- Develop, debug, and ship embedded software and firmware for Apple hardware products.
- Perform software failure analysis using standard debugging tools and JTAG and symbol-level debug environments.
- Support products from initial system bring-up through factory builds, production ramp, and early field-return periods.
- Build and debug code in embedded operating system environments such as iOS, Android, and QNX.
- Develop and debug drivers for UART, USB, I2C, SPI, and SPMI hardware interfaces.
- Reverse engineer hardware and software products and communicate findings effectively in individual and group settings.
Requirements
- Experience developing embedded software using version control and modern software development practices.
- Experience with software failure analysis and standard debugging tools.
- Proficiency with JTAG software debug tools and symbol-level environments including gdb, lldb, or Trace32.
- Programming proficiency in C, including memory and pointer management.
- Programming experience in Python, Lua, Perl, Tcl, or a similar scripting language.
- Knowledge of boot-up processes, operating system and RTOS concepts, bootloaders, and OS drivers.
- Persistence solving sophisticated problems across multiple teams and domains.
- Preferred: hands-on board bring-up and debugging of hardware problems such as unexpected resets and system hangs.
- Preferred: experience with embedded OS tools and environments, driver development, assembly language, ARM or other embedded SoCs, and basic web tools and web development.
About Apple
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.