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Firmware Sensing Manager

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 07, 2025

Role Number: 200598625

The team is looking for a skilled and motivated Sensing Manager that will be able to lead development of sensing based experiences for current and future Home and Audio products. The ideal candidate will have broad knowledge of integrating sensing technologies paired with product development firmware background. Apply today!

Description

Genuine passion for innovation and product development with experience from inception through delivery to customers. The Sensing Manager will be individually responsible for all things firmware and sensing related. Architect, design, develop, and maintain hardware/software systems for Apple products. The individual will also be responsible for the overall sensor integration in the product, ensuring high quality execution at launch with cross-functional teams in a highly dynamic environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of embedded firmware development in bare-metal or RTOS environments.

• 3+ years management experience building and mentoring strong fw/sw teams.

• 2-3+ years of sensing system hardware engineering experience such as optical, IMU, capacitive, environmental, light, motion, radar, acoustic, etc.

• Experience driving large or complex programs throughout full product and SW development lifecycle; including defining goals and ensuring milestone delivery in a high cross-functional capacity.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to work across the organization and interact, influence and negotiate effectively at all levels of management.

• Clear understanding of customer experience and impact as well as respective use cases and expected performance.

• Obsessively passionate and inquisitive, and seek to solve everyday problems in innovative ways.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record shipping FW in consumer electronics.

• Knowledgable of full SW stack including drivers, comms, middleware up to app layer / state machine.

• Strong, demonstrable coding skills in C/C++ in production environments.

• Ability to optimize software for resource constrained embedded systems (e.g. power, throughput, memory/compute).

• Availability to travel domestically and internationally for development and on-site manufacturing support

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $190,700 and $329,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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