Pre-Silicon Driver Engineer

Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino) , California , United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Feb 18, 2021

Role Number: 200222528

Apple's GPU Software team provides the graphics software foundation across all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Apple Watch. Apple ships Metal API, our unified graphics and compute API that provides near direct access to our GPUs on all products. Join our team and you'll collaborate with engineers across Apple to develop tools and APIs to enable developers to develop cutting edge applications for graphics, machine learning, and compute.

Key Qualifications

• Good Programming with knowledge of C and/or C++
• Understanding of Driver development or Operating System concepts
• Understand either CPU or GPU architectures
• Experience with Metal, OpenGL, OpenCL, DirectX, CUDA or other GPU programming languages or other parallel programming languages is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Description

We are seeking a results-oriented, upbeat and focused individual with a strong passion to learn and succeed. The GPU Pre-Silicon Driver Team is looking for a driver engineer to develop new features for Metal on Apple Silicon platforms. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing features for the next generation GPUs for the Metal API and Language, bringing those features from initial concept, through development, leading to correctness testing with Silicon arrival. You will collaborate with teams across GPU Software including the Compiler, Framework and Performance teams, and more broadly with hardware design, verification, performance and architecture teams within our Silicon Engineering Group.

Education & Experience

Technical BS/MS degree or equivalent experience