Operating System Silicon Validation Engineer

Job Description

As a member of the Apple SOC Silicon Validation Team, you will use your knowledge of SOC/IP design and test automation to find silicon bugs with iOS, macOS, and other silicon validation workloads on a large population of development boards, silicon validation boards, and prototype Apple products.

Requirements

• - BS degree
• - 10 years of relevant industry experience
• - Strong Computer systems, SoC, and CPU architecture knowledge
• - Experience in test content creation and test automation infrastructure development for consumer electronic hardware
• - OS test experience, iOS/macOS/Android/Windows
• - Expertise in at least one scripting language such as Python, Perl, or TCL
• - Desire to develop and execute test plans, analyze test logs/results, and report status
• - SoC validation experience
• - Operating system, boot loader, kernel, and device driver structure
• - Debug methodology and troubleshooting development hardware skills

Responsibilities

• - Leverage automation to run varied hardware stress tests on prototype devices
• - Contribute to test automation development that supports test creation, execution, and result reporting for silicon validation
• - Follow up on software and hardware failures using the bug tracking system
• - Support requests for information or custom experiments to find root-cause
• - Create new hardware stress tests by combining, modifying, or creating new workloads using your software and chip architecture knowledge