Embedded Display Firmware Engineer – Next‑Gen Displays

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a firmware engineer for its Display Silicon Architecture team in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will develop embedded firmware for display configurations and silicon, collaborating with cross-functional engineers and external vendors to deliver high-quality products. The role emphasizes efficient, low-latency firmware development for ARM processors, hardware bring-up, and integration of display interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in EE/CS/CSE with at least 3 years of professional experience.
• Experience developing firmware/software in C/C++ for ARM or similar embedded processors.
• Experience with hardware bring up, configuration and debug, low level firmware or driver development and expertise with associated tools and methodologies.
• Experience with interprocessor communication, interrupts, memory management, integrating peripherals or non-volatile memory (NOR, NAND Flash).
• Experience with various industry standard communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB, etc.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune highly efficient firmware and custom display silicon configurations - optimized for performance, power, memory footprint, and latency - based on requirements from internal and external teams
• Develop scripts and automation to integrate, test, validate, and release firmware builds
• Debug and troubleshoot issues to identify the root cause, and create detailed reports or presentations to share with stakeholders

Skills

C/C++

ARM Embedded

Interprocessor communication

I2C/SPI/UART/USB

Python scripting

Git

Test Driven Firmware

Display technologies

MATLAB

Image processing algorithms

Communication/writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS/CSE

Master's in EE/CS/CSE

Tools

Git

MATLAB

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a firmware engineer for its Display Silicon Architecture team in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will develop embedded firmware for display configurations and silicon, collaborating with cross-functional engineers and external vendors to deliver high-quality products. The role emphasizes efficient, low-latency firmware development for ARM processors, hardware bring-up, and integration of display interfaces.