Apple Neural Engine Driver Engineer

The Apple Neural Engine is used by thousands of applications to accelerate video analysis, voice recognition, and image processing. Do you want to work on the forefront of ML acceleration?

Our Apple Neural Engine Driver team is looking for an outstanding engineer to drive powerful next-generation technologies, such as Apple Intelligence, for revolutionary Apple products.

Imagine the impact you can make! A billion users will use the technologies you helped craft almost daily.

Are you ready to help us deliver the next groundbreaking Apple products?

Description

This is a highly multi-functional product development role, and you will work closely with various teams, like Silicon Design, Product Architecture, QA, Operating System and the ML Frameworks team. The environment is dynamic and requires a self-starter demeanor.

In this role you will:

- Develop new Kernel and User space drivers for future products from prototyping phases, through to mass production, while maintaining existing drivers across a whole range of Apple products

- Develop Neural Engine APIs that clients can leverage and work with client teams on integrating the solution to deliver end-to-end user experiences

- Actively participate in cross-functional efforts around Neural Engine feature specifications, pre-silicon validation, silicon bring-up, and factory testing

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in writing drivers and system software for hardware-accelerated compute engines (e.g. NPU, GPU, etc.)

Experience in hardware/software co-simulation and pre-silicon validation

Knowledge of neural networks and their applications

Good written and oral interpersonal skills

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

Excellent programming skills and knowledge of C/C++

Excellent debugging and problem solving capabilities

Driver development experience on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux in Kernel and User space environments

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