Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design

As part of Apple's Silicon Technologies group, this role involves designing and manufacturing next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processors and system-on-chips (SoC). The Hardware Systems Engineer will be critical to enabling incredible Apple products by creating elegant solutions to complex challenges. Responsibilities include high-speed board designs, implementing test and characterization circuits, and debugging system-level problems. The position requires close collaboration with various design teams, contributing significantly to silicon engineering efforts and ensuring seamless product functionality.

Must Have

• Develop specifications based on requirements from cross-functional teams.
• Perform schematic capture, circuit design, layout definition, and simulation.
• Conduct FPGA and CPLD development.
• Execute board bring-up, testing, characterization, and debug.
• Analyze power and signal integrity.
• Design and characterize high-speed interfaces.
• Debug a wide range of issues on test boards and production systems.
• Experience with schematic level board design.
• Understanding of board bringup and debug strategies.
• Strong fundamentals in EE concepts.
• RTL experience using Verilog or VHDL, preferably FPGA design experience.
• Proficiency with standard hardware lab equipment.
• Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python.

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. As a member of the Silicon Validation Hardware team you’ll be critical to enabling the next generation of incredible Apple products. This position involves a wide range of activities including high-speed board designs that push the limits of technology, designing and implementing test and characterization circuits in the lab, and debugging complicated system level problems. You’ll work closely with designers from many groups within Apple and be a key contributor to the silicon engineering effort.

• Developing specifications based on requirements from cross-functional teams
• Schematic capture, circuit design, definition of layout and routing constraints, design review and simulation
• FPGA and CPLD development
• Board bring-up, testing and characterization, and debug
• Power and signal integrity analysis
• High-speed interface design and characterization
• Debug a wide range of issues on test boards and production systems

• BS in Electrical, Computer or related degree program with 3 years of experience.

• Experience with schematic level board design
• Understanding board bringup and debug strategies
• Strong fundamentals in EE concepts; transistor operation, signal integrity and transmission lines, timing analysis, digital logic
• RTL experience using Verilog or VHDL. Preferably FPGA design experience
• Proficiency with standard hardware lab equipment including scopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, eLoads and protocol analyzers.
• Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python.

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.