Jobs / Apple
DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer - Firmware Validation (f/m/d)
Apple · München, BY, Deutschland
München, BY, DeutschlandOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
München, BY, Deutschland
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Build and operate the CI/CD platform, infrastructure, and tooling used to validate Mixed-Signal IP firmware, from static analysis and unit tests through simulation and hardware-in-the-loop silicon testing. The role includes managing self-hosted runners and toolchains, onboarding silicon platforms, automating validation labs, and developing firmware tests and cross-stack triage tools in collaboration with firmware and QA teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in a technical discipline and extensive relevant experience.
- Experience designing and owning CI/CD pipelines and shared engineering infrastructure.
- Strong Python skills for CLI tooling, orchestration, and integrations with APIs, webhooks, and service accounts.
- Hands-on experience operating self-hosted CI/CD systems, administering runners, orchestrating jobs, and debugging infrastructure failures.
- Proficiency with Git and integrating build, test, and reporting services.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with hardware and firmware development, SoC bring-up, or silicon testing.
- Comfort working hands-on in a hardware lab and maintaining boards and test stations.
Responsibilities
- Own and extend CI/CD pipelines from static analysis through hardware-in-the-loop silicon testing.
- Operate and harden self-hosted runners, toolchains, and platform packaging and release flows.
- Onboard silicon platforms by extending configurations, build and test matrices, and hardware integrations.
- Automate and maintain validation lab test stations.
- Triage and identify root causes across firmware toolchains, simulators, runner systems, and silicon tests.
- Develop firmware test cases and tooling for development boards and shipping products.
- Set up and maintain test-station hardware in collaboration with firmware and QA teams.
Skills
DockerJenkinsGitLabPythonGitGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLab CInpmpip
Degrees
Bachelor of Science in a technical discipline
Industry
Mixed-Signal IP firmwareSilicon validation
Relocation
No