Operating System Silicon Validation Engineer at Apple

Cupertino, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

SoC Design, Test Automation, Silicon Validation, Hardware Stress Tests, Bug Tracking, Software Failures, Chip Architecture, Test Plans, Test Logs, Debug Methodology, Troubleshooting, Scripting Languages, iOS, macOS, Android, Windows

Industry

Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

Description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. As a member of the Apple SOC Silicon Validation Team you will use your knowledge of SOC/IP design and test automation to find silicon bugs with iOS, macOS and other silicon validation workloads on a large population of development boards, silicon validation boards, and prototype Apple products. DESCRIPTION Leverage automation to run varied hardware stress tests on prototype devices while contributing to test automation development that supports the test creation, execution, and result reporting for silicon validation. Follow up on software and hardware failures using the bug tracking system, supporting requests for information or custom experiments to find root-cause. Create new hardware stress tests by combining, modifying or creating new workloads, using your software and chip architecture knowledge. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS A minimum of a BS degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Strong Computer systems, SoC and CPU architecture knowledge Experience in test content creation and test automation infrastructure development for consumer electronic hardware (watch, phone, pads, computers, ARVR) OS test experience, iOS/macOS/Android/Windows Expertise in at least one scripting language such as Python, Perl, or TCL. Desire to develop and execute test plans, analyze test logs/results, and report status SoC validation experience Operating system, boot loader, kernel and device driver structure Debug methodology and troubleshooting development hardware skills.

Responsibilities

Leverage automation to run hardware stress tests on prototype devices and contribute to test automation development. Follow up on software and hardware failures and create new hardware stress tests using software and chip architecture knowledge.