Senior Firmware Engineer- AirPods
San Diego, California, United States Hardware Summary Posted:
Apr 01, 2025 Role Number:
The AirPods Firmware team is looking for an enthusiastic engineer to join our team. This is an individual contributor role to develop the technical development of the audio platform for our products. You will have the opportunity to drive the technology and product development for Apple's consumer audio products. In this role, you will work with a wide cross-functional team to continually innovate technology implemented in Apple products. Description: This is a high visibility role that involves architecting and developing AirPods audio and connectivity platform. This platform is a key technology that integrates and manages the data and system states for our products. We are seeking someone who is passionate about the products, eager to improve quality and user experience, and driven to innovate down to the details. The people here at Apple don't just build products - they build the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries. Excellent communication and collaboration is a must, as you will be asked to partner with team members and other engineering teams.
Description Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and design teams to define product features and requirements Design, implement, debug, and test embedded C/C code running on 32-bit MCU's for Apple-branded audio products Develop highly efficient designs delivering outstanding performance, optimizing power and memory footprints while meeting latency requirements. Enable expansion of our product ecosystem features through creation of performance and test tools Debug real-time systems with limited visibility, working hands-on with development hardware and lab equipment.
Minimum Qualifications - 5+ years of proven excellence in firmware, embedded software, embedded product development, or equivalent experience
- Solid C/C coding abilities
- Strong embedded software fundamentals, including knowledge of design and development-flows, real-time constraints, concurrency, multi-threaded environments.
- Strong software and hardware debugging skills, familiarity with low-level hardware interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, etc)
- Experience with small microcontrollers & embedded systems
- Passion for product ownership and track record of product development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- BS or M.S. in Science or Engineering.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience implementing firmware in RTOS environments
- Knowledge of audio, DSP or Bluetooth technologies.
- Experience with configuration and release management (git), continuous integration, unit and regression testing.
- Strong understanding of design strategies for maintainability, scalability, and code reuse.
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