Silicon Validation Software Engineer: CPU and Memory Hierarchy

Apple

Job Details

Location: SW Apple Way, Portland, OR 97225, USA Posted: Mar 29, 2024

Job Description

Summary

Posted: Mar 27, 2024 Role Number: 200452855 Would you like to work on SW that runs on every Apple phone, pad, and Mac computer in the world? Join our team of experienced SW engineers and debuggers in validating Apple's world class silicon. In this highly visible role you will be writing functional validation SW for the CPUs, caches, and memory subsystem of our SoCs, with the aim of identifying logic design and circuit bugs. You will be a SW developer for a system validation tool used widely across Apple's Silicon Engineering group, and will collaborate with SoC design and product engineering teams to debug and drive silicon issues to root-cause.

Key Qualifications

Strong understanding of micro-processor architecture
Good knowledge of ARM or another CPU instruction set architecture
Familiarity with memory technologies and power management
Experienced C and assembly programmer.
Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl
Knowledge of software tool chains including including compilers, assemblers, and source control tools
Background in silicon bring-up and debug experience a plus
Ability to work well in a team, but to be responsible and self-driven.

Description

Description - Work with designers and architects to understand the functionality of various blocks in the SoC - Create validation test plans, ensuring all key features are covered - Develop SW workloads to validate various CPU and memory subsystem features - Integration of these workloads into an existing system validation tool - Make enhancements to the tool's SW framework to support new CPU architectures - Drive the bring-up and execution of our validation SW in pre-silicon (FPGAs) and post-silicon (development boards) - Debug workload failures using a variety of tools and hooks - Release and distribute our system validation SW to cross-functional teams across Apple

Education & Experience

Education & Experience BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience

Additional Requirements

About Apple

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