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Wireless SoC FW Engineer
AWM-3397-Wireless SoC FW Engineer
10/25/2025
10/30/2025
Negotiable
Permanent

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www.apple.com
San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA
San Francisco
California
United States
94103

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Role Number: 200628059-3401

Summary

Would you like to join Apple’s growing Wireless Connectivity Silicon team? Our wireless System on a Chip (SoC) organization is responsible for all aspects of wireless silicon development with a particular emphasis on highly energy efficient design and new technologies that transform the user experience at the product level, all of which is driven by a world-class vertically integrated engineering team spanning RF/Analog architecture and design, Systems/PHY/MAC architecture and design, VLSI/RTL design and integration, Emulation, Design Verification, Test and Validation, and FW/SW engineering.

Description

In this highly visible role, you will be at the center of a silicon design group with a critical impact on getting functional wireless products to hundreds of millions of customers. Responsible for crafting and implementing embedded firmware for SoC bring up and wireless connectivity enablement. You will work closely with the Software Engineering teams ensuring the quality of their firmware for manufacturability. You will be a core member of a Wireless SoC firmware team, with emphasis on hardware and system bring-up, driver implementation, developing protocol stack and supporting other teams interacting within a Wireless SoC group.

Minimum Qualifications

  • BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong background in embedded FW development using C and assembly languages, familiarity with ARM CPUs and its internals.

  • Experience with low-level hardware interfaces, register and interrupt programming, bare-metal software development.

  • Solid understanding of basic embedded concepts such as RTOS, concurrency, multi-processor systems.

  • Experience in developing low-level drivers for peripherals, performing HW bring-up.

  • Knowledgeable of wireless communication protocols, understanding of MAC/PHY/Radio layers.

  • Knowledgeable of industry standards for wireless communications such as Bluetooth, WLAN, Zigbee, UWB.

  • Comfortable with at least one of the scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Tcl.

  • Excellent communication skills – both written and oral.

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 $181,100 and $318,400, 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.

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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .

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