Embedded Software Engineer - Biophotonics

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product! Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? \\n\\nThe Biophotonics software team solves a wide array of challenging problems and is responsible for the software that drives the prototypes and platforms at the heart of our program. We develop solutions at all levels from embedded firmware code to full stack applications and cloud based data processing solutions. We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to help design and execute on the embedded platform architecture and system software development efforts. The candidate must be flexible and able to work with experts from a diverse set of backgrounds to identify requirements and implement critical features.

In this dynamic role, the candidate will work closely with the project's other software engineers and the wider engineering team to design and develop software solutions enabling progress on the organization's research and development activities. Duties will include contributing to software architecture definitions, creating development plans, translating application feature requests into reusable software, and executing on plans for new and existing embedded applications. Working with a mix of short and long timelines, balancing a wide range of technically diverse tasks. The work includes: automation and control of embedded platforms, data acquisition and management, and developing software support tools and associated services.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, a combination of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, or equivalent fields.\nSoftware development experience in an industrial setting.\nDevelopment experience in one of the following programming languages: C, C++, Python, Java, Go, Rust, Scala, or Swift.

10+ years of experience with all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, and maintenance.\nHands-on experience in using debugging tools such as gdb, lldb, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.\nExperience with board bring-up and interpreting and navigating schematics and layouts.\nCapable of driving projects related to: application development (e.g. data acquisition, system control, automation, and UI), system software and firmware, device drivers, and general compute infrastructure.\nStrong Software Engineering skills in software design, development across object oriented or concurrent programming languages, and debugging. This would include the programming language itself as well as its toolchains (IDEs and dependency management) and overall ecosystem (frameworks and best practices) across a variety of operating systems.\nSkilled with software support tools including the Unix command line, shell scripting, and version control software.\nDemonstrated ability to digest and use new technology quickly and strategically.\nConsistent track record successfully making progress amidst ambiguity; strong communication skills and experience working on cross-functional projects.