Silicon Validation Software Engineer- ISP Validation

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Sep 30, 2024
Role Number:200570608
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about changing the world?! We have a critical impact on getting high quality functional products to millions of customers quickly, and we are hiring all levels from junior to senior roles. As part of the silicon validation team, you perform block and system-level validation of image sensor data (camera) processing subsystems in silicon. - Work with logic designers to understand the operation of image processing pipelines at the block and system levels. - Investigate the use cases, system-level operation, performance requirements. - Develop low-level software to validate functionality, conformance, and performance of image sensor processing subsystems. - Work with other members of the validation team to incorporate your tests into system-level tests. - Bring-up and debug devices on new hardware platforms.

• Bachelor’s degree with 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong software skills in C/C++.
• Experience with image sensor processing hardware pipelines (e.g. raw image processing, cameras, MIPI).
• Experience with bring-up of Camera Sensors and writing low level drivers for them
• Experience with hardware/software interaction.
• Knowledge of image formats and color spaces.
• Embedded software experience is a must. Device driver experience a plus.
• Curiosity about writing software to validate the correct operation of hardware.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

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• Bachelor’s degree with 3 years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field