At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people’s lives! Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? Do you like changing the game? We have an opportunity for a committed and outstandingly creative Firmware Engineer in our Swindon office. As a member of our dynamic group, you will have this rare opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apple’s customers every day. We are looking for a Firmware Engineer who will enable us to deliver new functionality in our next generation of mixed-signal designs, in close collaboration with the design teams.

Key Qualifications

• Shown excellence with bare metal firmware, device driver or equivalent development experience.
• Software development experience using C and assembly language with ARM CPUs, Cortex-M an advantage.
• Experience in developing low-level drivers and HW bring-up, using test tools and interacting with HW design teams.
• Software and hardware debugging skills are critical, as is ability to understand PCB schematics and use standard hardware bench equipment (oscilloscopes etc.) SWD/ICE/JTAG experience is helpful.
• Validated ability to design and integrate code into a shipping product against high-reaching timelines.
• Experience with FPGA development and test.
• Experience using IDE, as well as (command line) embedded toolchains and simulation environments.
• Experience with Configuration Management tools (git, Subversion).
• Experience with scripting languages (i.e. Python, Bash/shell, Perl).
• Experience with non-ARM MCUs, peripherals, features, and development environments is also valuable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with the ability to collaborate.
• Ability to work well on a team, take ownership and empower self and others
• Willingness to travel

Description

Partner closely with various team members on activities ranging from power management sub-system design, algorithm development, firmware development to system debug, root cause analysis, and corrective action.Developing embedded software solutions for our current and future products.Work with the silicon team to craft specifications for future chips, building software to run on these new chips and boards.Design and develop software API for various IP blocks in embedded environments.Collaborate closely with design teams to provide system-level API and firmware functionality to meet product requirements; coding, debugging and hardware/software integration testing; and communicating results and recommendations.Work with multi-functional teams across Apple, to support product development into mass production.Work closely with peers to achieve efficient and aligned methodologies.

Education & Experience

MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent.

Additional Requirements

• Apple is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.