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Wireless SOC FW Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (San Diego, California)$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Wireless SoC firmware engineer focused on hardware and system bring-up, drivers, network stack, and support across a Wireless SoC group. Collaborates with Software Engineering to ensure firmware quality for manufacturability and works with product SW, test, and protocol stack teams to implement features and diagnostics for wireless protocols and device drivers.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product SW team to provide system-level API and firmware functionality to meet product requirements.
  • Work closely with product test and protocol stack teams to resolve issues arising as part of product and interoperability testing
  • Implement new product features as part of the development of wireless protocol stacks, device drivers, and diagnostics.
  • Provide support to the SoC design team and assist internal SW/HW integration and initial chip and product bring-up efforts.

Qualifications

  • BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Strong background in embedded software development using C and assembly languages, familiarity with ARM CPUs and RTOS.
  • Experience in performing low-level drivers and HW bring-up and validation on FPGA and SoC Silicon hardware platform, using test tools, and interacting with HW and SoC design teams.
  • Experience writing scripts in languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.
  • Experience implementing diagnostics, manufacturing tests, and protocol compliance test software.
  • Experience with power optimization implementation and related debugging in firmware.
  • Experience with industry standards for wireless communications such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or UWB at MAC/PHY level and FW implementation.

Skills

Required:Embedded software developmentLow-level drivers and hardware bring-upScriptingDiagnostics and manufacturing testsPower optimization in firmwareWireless standards knowledge

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • employee stock programs and stock purchase plan
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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