CPU Silicon Bringup and Debug Engineer

Austin,Texas,United States

Hardware

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, hard-working 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. You will be a member of a CPU silicon bringup team where your tasks will include reproducing silicon failures on FPGA or Emulators, optimizing FPGA models for speed, creating silicon irritators on FPGA, and executing parts of functional silicon bringup plans.

Description

In this highly visible and interactive role, your primary responsibilities will be: • Drive end-to-end silicon test plan development and execution across CPU product cycle • Reproduction of silicon failures on FPGA/Emulation • Contribute to design of hardware irritators to validate features on silicon and pre-silicon • FPGA model build and methodology for ECO verification

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience

• Academic understanding of CPU architecture and microarchitecture

• C and assembly programming skills

• Experience in scripting

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

• Academic or industry experience in hardware and low-level software

• Operating system knowledge is a notable plus

• Understanding of firmware and device drivers

• Experience with FPGA model design and optimization

• Experience with board level debug is a plus

• Industry experience with silicon test plan development and execution

• Ability to work with multiple teams in delivering a solution

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

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