Hardware System Integration Electrical Engineer - Mac

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

The Hardware System Integration Electrical Engineer will own key aspects of electrical system design and integration for MacBook Air, defining, designing, and validating electrical subsystems. The role involves solving system-level tradeoffs among performance, battery life, thermals, reliability, manufacturability, and industrial design within a space-constrained consumer product. The engineer collaborates with mechanical engineering, Apple Silicon, software, and module technology teams to deliver product designs and improve user experience. The engineer is responsible for subsystem schematic design, simulation, debugging, and validation, and serves as the Design Responsible Individual (DRI). This includes presenting design proposals and tradeoffs, leading technical discussions, and building alignment through design reviews. The role continues through mass production, partnering with manufacturing and operations to support factory builds, resolve line-down issues, investigate manufacturing issues and yield excursions, and implement improvements to product quality, manufacturability, and production efficiency. International travel may be required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with industry-level practical experience.
Strong electrical engineering fundamentals, including analog and digital circuit theory, signal integrity, and power integrity.
Experience with circuit design in one or more areas: power, digital, analog, high-speed interfaces, programmable logic, or wireless systems.
Strong PCB layout expertise, including constrained multilayer designs, high-speed interfaces, power delivery networks, flex circuits, and cable assemblies.
Proficiency with Allegro or equivalent PCB design tools.
Experience with schematic capture and constraint-driven PCB design using Cadence Allegro/OrCAD or equivalent EDA tools.
Solid understanding of design, validation, and debug requirements for common interfaces such as I2C, SPI, JTAG, and I2S, and high-speed interfaces such as USB, PCIe, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, and DDR.
Experience with numerical modeling, simulation, and analysis tools, including SPICE, 2D/3D field solvers, and power and signal integrity analysis.
Experience with electrical validation and debugging using high-speed oscilloscopes, vector network analyzers, BERTs, and protocol analyzers.
Experience with data analysis, visualization, and scripting to automate validation, debugging, and engineering workflows.
Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Strong technical fundamentals, broad system knowledge, sound engineering judgment, and curiosity to investigate and solve difficult problems.
Intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and passionate about solving challenging engineering problems and continuously learning.

Responsibilities

Design robust electrical subsystems and own schematic design, simulation, debugging, and validation.
Serve as the Design Responsible Individual for a subsystem, presenting design proposals and tradeoffs to cross-functional partners.
Drive technical discussions and build alignment through design reviews.
Own the subsystem through mass production.
Partner with manufacturing and operations to support factory builds.
Resolve line-down issues and investigate manufacturing issues and yield excursions.
Implement design improvements that enhance product quality, manufacturability, and production efficiency.
Apply system architecture, circuit design, power delivery, high-speed interface, and PCB expertise to address system integration challenges.
Use data analysis, visualization, and scripting to automate validation, debugging, and engineering workflows.
Collaborate with mechanical engineering, Apple Silicon, software, and module technology teams.
Travel internationally as needed.