Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Join a team of passionate and creative engineers dedicated to building technologies that will shape the future. We are a cross-functional group that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and tackling challenging problems to create products that are both profoundly useful and delightful to use. Our work lies at the intersection of groundbreaking hardware, software, and design, and we are looking for a key contributor to help us explore what's possible.

In this role you will design and implement firmware and low level software for new groundbreaking Apple products and technologies. This is a hands-on role working closely with our electrical, mechanical, controls and AIML engineering counterparts.

Description

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer you will be a critical member of a multi-disciplinary team, responsible for rapidly prototyping and validating novel concepts. Your work will directly influence future product direction by demonstrating the viability and potential of new technologies.","responsibilities":"Design, develop, bring-up, and debug custom firmware and device drivers on new hardware

Perform rapid iterative development of complex prototypes and proofs of concept

Efficiently triage and debug system issues in collaboration with our cross functional integrated team

Design novel communication strategies and protocols in partnership with other engineering teams

Participate in the design process, working closely with machine learning and mechanical design teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with networking, concurrency, and distributed systems, particularly for fault-tolerant, low-latency, closed-loop applications

Experience with various sensor modalities (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, IMUs, depth sensors)

Experience in motor controls, actuation, audio, or switching power supplies

Background in electromechanical systems, motor control theory, and implementation of real-time control systems

Experience using Linux+PreemptRT or QNX in real time applications

Experience with robust coding and software development standards in safety-critical environments such as DO-178B/C, MISRA C, ISO 26262, or IEC 61508 / 62304

Minimum Qualifications

BS/MS degree in one of Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics or Electrical Engineering

Proficiency with embedded development

5+ years of firmware or device driver development

Strong, demonstrable coding skills in C and C++

Experience with embedded Real Time Operating Systems (FreeRTOS, VxWorks etc)

Experience with common interfaces (ie: I2C, SPI, UART, USB)

Familiarity with compilers and toolchains targeting ARM Cortex-M/R/A, etc.

Familiarity with tools such as debuggers, oscilloscopes, etc.

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