Linux Kernel & Driver Engineer for SoC & Graphics

Apple Inc.

Austin (TX)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to develop Linux device drivers and kernel-level software for complex SoCs. You will bring up software on pre- and post-silicon platforms and collaborate with design teams to understand IP blocks.

You should have embedded Linux kernel experience, proficiency in C, and familiarity with ARM architectures and graphics stacks. Responsibilities include debugging hardware/software issues and validating subsystems.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience in embedded Linux kernel development.
Experience in C programming.
Experience with ARM architecture.
Familiarity with the Linux graphics stack (Mesa, Vulkan/OpenGL, GPU compute).
Experience validating GPUs with graphics and compute workloads, stress tests, or conformance suites (e.g., Vulkan CTS, igt-gpu-tools).
Knowledge of Linux kernel internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency/synchronization, memory allocation, and file systems) and networking or storage subsystem architecture.
Device driver development across USB, networking, graphics, video, storage, and power management.
Experience exercising and validating systems from user space, including knowledge of user space APIs.
Experience porting and/or maintaining a Linux distribution for a platform.

Responsibilities

Work closely with designers and architects to understand functional IP blocks and their use cases.
Implement BSP and perform software bring-up on pre- and post-silicon platforms.
Develop Linux device drivers and user-land tests for exercising and validating the various subsystems in complex SoCs.
Debug and root-cause a variety of hardware and software issues.