Embedded Software Engineer, Firmware Introspection, Core OS

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As part of the Core Operating System team your challenge is to make the invisible visible bringing observability to the dozens of embedded processors inside every Apple device where memory is scarce cycles are precious and failure is silent. Following a minimal-footprint always-on mindset youll design and implement the logging metrics and tracing systems that give engineers across Apple the ability to understand measure and diagnose firmware behavior from silicon to the diagnostic tools on a developers desk.

Design and implement firmware observability systems structured logging metrics collection and trace capture across multiple coprocessor with firmware silicon diagnostics power/performance and developer tools teams to surface actionable telemetry from deeply embedded environments into host-side tooling and with product and engineering teams to identify the highest-value telemetry and shaping the introspection data (logging telemetry trace etc) that directly inform product decisions performance targets and shipping quality across Apples firmware rigorous coding documentation and testing practices across different firmware environments where resource constraints demand minimal footprint and zero-overhead instrumentation.n

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experiencenStrong experience developing software for embedded systems with resource constraints (CPU and memory)nExcellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detailnAbility to collaborate across teamsnProficient with C/C

Experience with instrumentation frameworks such as logging metrics collection tracing or telemetry pipelinesnLow-level systems experience with coprocessor architectures memory interfaces and firmwarehost transport mechanismsnExperience with hardware debugging and debugger scripting CLI utilities or diagnostic frameworksnExperience in embedded firmware development and real-time operating systems