Silicon Validation Tools Engineer
Cupertino, CA 
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Posted: Feb 2, 2024

Role Number:200517462

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, inquisitive 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 commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Great products require great software, and great software requires great hardware. Ensuring great hardware of this complexity requires advanced tools and processes of equal complexity. In this role, you'll help to ensure that no hardware bug ever gets in the way of delight in using Apple products. You'll work with and in support of teams across Apple and across various disciplines to create innovative tools and processes to generate, categorize, analyze, and resolve bugs in silicon and pre-silicon designs.

Key Qualifications

  • - Advanced level of Python programming
  • - Familiarity with computer / system / SoC architecture
  • - Imagination for building complex processes and making useful interactive user experiences a joy to use
  • - Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • - Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • - Experience with revision control systems including at least git


Description

Your role is to make validation easier, faster, and more fun, to ensure high-quality silicon and products. Primarily, your role is to build tools that increase the level of abstraction validation engineers use to interact with hardware, and with testing processes. This role requires creative abstraction of both design specifications and data extracted from systems to create innovative tools for control, visualization, and analysis of Apple products. These tools can include anything from low-level JTAG interaction with electrical IPs, to diagnosis of test results across an entire lab of tests. You will work closely with engineers across groups including validation, hardware, software, design, and architecture to comprehend current processes and find impactful ways into the adjacent and far possible.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

    At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $138,900.00 and $256,500.00, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

    Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

    Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

    Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

 

Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
3+ years
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