PHY Firmware Design u0026 Development Engineer

Summary

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Every single day, people do amazing things at Apple. Imagine what you could do here! Do you want to impact billions of users by developing an extraordinary product with a prime focus on accuracy, understandability and performance of the product? Will you help us design future generations of revolutionary Apple products? nThe PHY Firmware team is seeking a firmware engineer with demonstrable passion for building new technologies. The team designs and develops the Physical Layer Firmware for Wireless Communication Systems. You will become part of a hands-on development team that fosters engineering perfection, creativity and innovation. Dynamic, encouraging people and innovative technologies are the norm here. If you are a resourceful engineer with the desire to research and develop solutions that do not yet exist, we want you to join our team.

Description

Develop communication firmware for best-in-class implementation of various wireless standards basic research of existing solutions in literature. nInvolvement in design of firmware architecture, from top-level down to block-level. nDefine and write high-level design documents that will enable firmware coding for micro-controller and fine-tune the firmware for spec compliance on silicon in an RF lab environment. nThe people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with our products and services. The same passion for innovation also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us if you want to help deliver the next amazing Apple product.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience in low-level real-time/embedded programming and firmware architecture – mandatorytnExperience and proficiency in C programming language – mandatorynB.Sc / M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge in wireless protocols: BlueTooth or WLAN (IEEE 802.11) - highly preferrednKnowledge in digital signal processing algorithms - highly preferrednKnowledge in RF systems - highly preferrednExperience with AI agentic flow - highly preferrednExperience in RF lab work and testing equipment (Spectrum, Analyser, Signal Generator, etc.) - preferrednExperience and proficiency in ARM CPU processors architecture - preferrednExperience with programming in assembly language on industry standard CPUs and DSP processors - preferrednExperience and proficiency in Python language - preferred