Debug Tools SoC Design Engineer

Apple Inc.; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks a skilled engineer to design and enhance silicon debug tools used across hundreds of engineers. You will contribute across frontend, backend, and data layers, driving rapid triage workflows and AI-enabled improvements within a cross-disciplinary team.

Ideal candidates have strong full-stack instincts, experience with AI/ML in engineering workflows, and a background in data pipelines and ETL/ELT concepts. You will help shape the roadmap for silicon debug tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and extensive industry experience.
• Experience across frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance silicon debug tools spanning automated feature extraction, data collation, visualization, and analysis.
• Drive rapid, targeted debug and triage workflows for engineers across the silicon pipeline.
• Contribute to frontend, backend, and data layer development within a professional engineering environment.
• Explore shift-left strategies to surface issues earlier in the silicon development cycle.
• Actively leverage AI to accelerate debugging and triage intelligence.

Skills

Full-stack instincts

AI/ML in workflows

Data pipelines & ETL/ELT

Hardware/Software collaboration

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL databases

ETL/ELT pipelines

Job description

Apple's SOC Silicon Validation Services team is looking for a skilled and curious engineer to help shape the tools that power silicon debug across Apple. We're a close-knit, cross-disciplinary team with deep expertise spanning hardware, software, infrastructure, and operations — and we're looking for someone who thrives at that intersection.You'll join a small, tightly integrated team where your contributions have real reach: the tools we build are used by hundreds of engineers across Apple's cross-functional silicon debug community. You'll collaborate on a well-established, evolving ecosystem and be challenged to bring a new perspective and opportunities to the table.

Description

• Design, build, and enhance silicon debug tools spanning automated feature extraction, data collation, visualization, and analysis
• Drive rapid, targeted debug and triage workflows for engineers across the silicon pipeline
• Contribute to both frontend, backend, and design specific development within a professional engineering environment
• Explore and implement shift-left strategies to surface issues earlier in the silicon development cycle
• Actively leverage AI — both for productivity and in tool capabilities — to accelerate debug and triage intelligence
• Identify new development opportunities and bring your own ideas into the roadmap

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 20 years relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SoC architecture and micro-architecture
• Proven ability to drive silicon tool development from concept to delivery
• Strong full-stack development instincts: comfortable across frontend, backend, and data layers
• Hands-on experience with C, Python, and SystemVerilog
• Experience applying AI/ML in real engineering workflows
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating across hardware and software boundaries
• Collaborative by nature
• Experience with DFX (Design for Test/Debug/Manufacturability)
• Experience with databases and data pipeline design, including ETL/ELT concepts

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