Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design Job at Apple in Waltham

Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design

Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Department: Hardware

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.

Description

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

Minimum Qualifications

1. Experience designing complex high-speed embedded systems with a demonstrated record of success.
2. BS in Electrical, Computer, or related degree program with at least 10 years of experience.

Key Qualifications

1. Broad experience with high-speed, high-power embedded system design.
2. Experience defining routing constraints for high-speed interfaces.
3. Design and analysis of power supplies and power integrity analysis.
4. Excellent signal integrity analysis and measurement techniques.
5. CPU/SOC/Microcontroller system architecture expertise.
6. Proficiency with standard hardware lab equipment including scopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, eLoads, and protocol analyzers.
7. Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python.
8. Board level analog and digital circuit design experience.

Additional Information

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.

Apple participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Apple is a drug-free workplace.

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