Software Development Engineer - Systems

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Design and develop software for graphics processing unit (GPU) drivers for Apple silicon GPUs. Ensure high performance work scheduling occurs on the GPU across Apple products. Schedule low latency commands on GPU designs. Implement and evaluate workload scheduling and quality of service policies for the GPU performance analysis and optimization of the driver and firmware for optimum scheduling performance. Validate GPU and firmware features for new System-on-Chips (SoCs) post-silicon bring-up. Design and evaluate possible future GPU and firmware architectures. Create and maintain the kernel mode driver and firmware running on GPUs for Apple's embedded devices including iPhones, iPads, iPods, and AppleTV. Integrate GPU drivers into iOS/macOS software. Provide data for performance and debugging tools and complete performance analysis and tuning of software/hardware. Perform specification reviews and contribute to new ideas for next generation GPU and iOS/macOS. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $226,138 - $272,100/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:

Utilizing C/C++/assembly to work on multi-language codebases for software development
Using GPU programming technologies such as CUDA for parallel processing and advanced applications of artificial intelligence
Developing system software features for scheduling of GPU workloads, utilizing operating system skills
Debugging hardware and software issues with help of architectural/microarchitectural knowledge of systems, and system software skills
Designing and implementing low level embedded software interfaces for CPU and GPU with understanding of computer architecture skills including pipelining, caching, multi-processor interactions, and virtual memory
Utilizing parallel computer architecture skills for spec reviews of GPU hardware and developing algorithms to provide high performance on the GPU
Utilizing C/C++/Python languages for writing test libraries for verification of software and hardware features

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