Senior Firmware Engineer
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $151,249–$216,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $184k for comparable roles.
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software
Apple Inc currently has 3497 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $174,149–$277,600 across 2702 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Firmware Engineer joins the Accessories team to research, develop, and innovate solutions for the next generation of Apple and Beats accessory products. This role involves architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining hardware and software systems throughout the product development lifecycle, from early concepts to fully realized devices. Key responsibilities include performing characterization, testing, and validation of designs while analyzing results to create reports. The position requires expertise in C, hardware bring-up, reading schematics, and debugging chip-level functionality. Candidates must demonstrate experience with low-power microcontrollers using ARM Cortex-M/R/A architectures and standard bus interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, and USB. Additional technical competencies include power management, battery charging architectures, sensor integration, Bluetooth, BLE, compiler toolchains, RTOS environments, and automated firmware test frameworks.
What does a Firmware Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 38 postings across 10 companies.
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