Apple
Embedded Real Time Critical Control Firmware Engineer
$175K–$325K
San Diego, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Sunnyvale, California - Experience
- Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS
About the job
Develop and validate optimized real-time embedded firmware and control algorithms for cellular SoCs, including pre-silicon design and verification.
What you'll do
- Implement power-gating, tracking-loop, and spec-based physical-layer algorithms under strict memory, cycle, and timing constraints.
- Build validation frameworks and contribute to pre-silicon emulation systems and virtual platforms for firmware design and hardware verification.
- Evaluate and implement tools for build, formal verification, and testing.
What they ask for
- BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience.
- Experience designing and implementing highly optimized bare-metal control firmware, leading feature delivery across a complete firmware/software life cycle, and architecting system-level features.
- Fundamental facility with C and C++, compilers, build and source code control tools; experience with Python or Perl scripting.
- Strong foundation in machine learning and deep learning, including ML algorithms and deep learning architectures; experience using generative AI for design and implementation.
Nice to have
- Understanding of 5G and 4G 3GPP protocols and familiarity with wireless communications.
- Experience with silicon prototyping, emulation systems, virtual platforms, memory-constrained RTOS, and concurrent programming.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary; USD); $184,700 and $324,800 (base salary; USD)
Tools
C, C++, Python, Perl, RTOS, CNNs, RNNs, Transformers
AI focus
Use AI/ML to improve productivity and develop system architectures implementing AI/ML principles; apply ML and deep learning, including generative AI, to design and implementation.
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