Display Firmware Engineer
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Job overview
Apple's Display Silicon Architecture team seeks a firmware engineer to develop next-generation display configurations, firmware, and products. The role collaborates with display firmware and silicon architects, electrical engineers, pixel pipeline, software and security architects, and external vendors. Success requires embedded firmware development experience and the ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, hands-on environment focused on engineering quality.
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Full job description
Role Number: 200688544-3401
Summary
Apple's Display Silicon Architecture team is looking for a firmware engineer to work on the next generation of displays. Join us in crafting solutions the world doesn't know of yet. To be successful, you should be able to thrive in a dynamic, agile, multi-disciplinary, and hands-on environment that values engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation.
Description
This role requires a strong embedded firmware development background and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally. You will work with display firmware and silicon architects, electrical engineers, pixel pipeline, software and security architects and external vendors to develop display configurations, firmware and productize with emphasis on top-notch quality.
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in EE/CS/CSE with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience
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Experience developing firmware/software in C/C++ for ARM or similar embedded processors
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Experience with hardware bring up, configuration and debug, low level firmware or driver development and expertise with associated tools and methodologies
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Experience with interprocessor communication, interrupts, memory management, integrating peripherals or non-volatile memory (NOR, NAND Flash)
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Experience with various industry standard communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
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Master's in EE/CS/CSE
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Solid understanding of Python or other scripting languages
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Experience with Git (or similar) client source code repository operations and work flows
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Good knowledge of Test Driven Firmware Development Methodology with continuous integration and releases
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Good knowledge of Display Technologies
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Good understanding of MATLAB or similar tools
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Experience with implementation of image processing and pixel manipulation algorithms is a plus
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Strong sense of responsibility and ownership, with a proven ability to drive technical solutions with good written and verbal communication skills
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 831 open Firmware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$168–241K/yr260 salary ranges
- US median$52–70/hr35 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 337 open Firmware Engineer jobs in California and 831 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril Industries25 open
- NVIDIA25 open
- Apple (this employer)24 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Firmware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (697 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 362 of the 831 open Firmware Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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