Embedded Firmware Software Engineer

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Oct 17, 2024
Role Number:200569682
Imagine what you could do at Apple! Everyday, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you bring passion and dedication to your job? If so, we are looking for individuals like you. The Audio Media Technologies (AMT) group is at the center of audio, video, and graphics in Apple’s innovative products, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, Apple TV and Vision Pro. Our work directly impacts the end-user experience through impactful features such as Adaptive Noise Control, Conversation Awareness, FaceTime, Siri, media playback, and Conversation Boost, to name just a few. AMT’s Audio team provides the audio foundation for various high profile features like Game Audio, Siri, FaceTime, media capture, playback and API’s for third party developers to enrich our platforms. The team is looking for talented engineers who are passionate about building audio features and products for millions of customers and care about overall user experience. You will revolutionize the audio experience for game and future audio technologies.

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for someone who can help us realize new low-power/high-compute audio DSP features in Apple’s products. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and optimizing signal processing algorithms on programmable HW. You will write unit tests and integration tests to enable comprehensive testing and validation of your software. You will work cross-functionally with Acoustics experts, algorithm engineers, DSP software engineers, audio driver developers, and HW engineers to integrate these features into real-time audio subsystems while solving audio fidelity and performance issues along the way.

• Deep understanding of DSP fundamentals, preferably in audio (speech enhancement, noise cancellation/reduction, media processing, sample rate conversion.)
• Excellent C/C++ coding skills
• Experience realizing audio/DSP/real-time features and applications
• Experience with development and debug of audio issues on HW platforms
• Ability to problem-solve independently and collaborate effectively with people from various disciplines
• BS/MS in EE or CS or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent Python skills
• Experience with audio test and measurement equipment and methodologies

• Deep understanding of DSP fundamentals, preferably in audio (speech enhancement, noise cancellation/reduction, media processing, sample rate conversion.)
• Excellent C/C++ coding skills
• Experience realizing audio/DSP/real-time features and applications
• Experience with development and debug of audio issues on HW platforms
• Ability to problem-solve independently and collaborate effectively with people from various disciplines
• BS/MS in EE or CS or equivalen