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SoC Embedded Software Engineer for Factory

Apple

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Location
Cupertino, CA
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree, required

Job overview

Apple’s Silicon Technologies group is hiring an Embedded Software Engineer for SoC factory support. The engineer will develop embedded software for SoC bring-up and testing in a production boot-loader environment, work with Product Engineering to bring up new silicon on devices, and help ensure manufactured SoC quality. The role also supports factory characterization, failure analysis, and mass production.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Embedded Software, nice to haveDebugging, nice to haveCharacterization, nice to haveEmbedded C, nice to haveSoC Bring-Up, nice to haveProblem Solving, nice to haveBoot Loader Debugging, nice to haveLaboratory Equipment, nice to haveLogic Analyzer, nice to haveDigital Oscilloscope, nice to haveCommunication, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Related Field, required

Full job description

Role Number: 200694412-0836

Summary

Do you love crafting elegant solutions to highly sophisticated challenges? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, we will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices!

At Apple, we go beyond the industry norm and demonstrate creativity in problem solving, ability to think dynamically and outside of standard convention, and adapt quickly to new technical areas. We promote innovation and new technology. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision, Apple TV, AirPods, HomePod and a multitude of groundbreaking Accessories. We have done the same with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product!

Joining Apple as an Embedded Software Engineer for SoC Factory Support, you will craft and implement embedded software for System on a Chip (SoC) bring up and test. You will write software for Apple silicon in a production boot loader environment. You will work closely with the Product Engineering teams to bring up new silicon on device and ensure the SoC quality when manufactured.

Description

  • Design and implementation of firmware for SoC bring up, validation, and test.
  • Identify, analyze and root-cause SoC failures in the factory.
  • Enhance and maintain the development and debug environments, tools and methodologies.
  • Support of functional test environment for device characterization, failure analysis, and mass production.
  • Generate post-silicon directed diagnostic and stress test cases and debugging failure cases using multiple HW and low level SW platforms.
  • Use of soft skills and data driven approach to effectively collaborate and participate in multi-team discussions and decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Embedded software experience, including debugging and characterization

  • Experience with embedded C programming

  • Experience on SoC silicon bring up/power up

  • Experience with problem solving and delivery of high volume and high quality SW

  • Experience debugging boot loader is a plus

  • Experience using laboratory equipment (e.g., logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope) is a plus

  • Strong 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 1,260 open Embedded Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$144–220K/yr324 salary ranges
  • California median$49–67/hr24 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 405 open Embedded Software Engineer jobs in California and 1,260 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Embedded Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (1,067 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 525 of the 1,260 open Embedded Software Engineer jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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