Hardware Systems Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

17h•$184,700 - $277,600•Onsite

About The Position

Support system-level SerDes compliance and high-speed IO validation efforts that Mac System Technology is responsible for executing across all Mac programs. Support the end-to-end compliance process for all portable and desktop programs. Contribute to the flow bring, validation and correlation. Perform debugging in collaboration with Hardware and System teams to drive silicon, hardware, and tunable issues for USB-C interface. Perform PHY adaptation validation with different channel scenarios to verify platform level integration robustness of these 3rd party and Apple IPs. Perform hardware-level validation as well as simulation efforts to correlation with hardware validation.

Requirements

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
3 years of experience with utilizing high-speed oscilloscopes, Signal generators and VNA/PNA to measure and analyze serial I/O signal integrity and electrical performance characteristics for receiver and transmitter validation.
3 years of experience utilizing Thunderbolt and USB4 electrical compliance test specifications (CTS) and compliance test suites to execute and document high-speed serial I/O electrical compliance validation against industry standards.
3 years of experience designing and implementing stress testing methodologies for high-speed serial I/O interfaces to identify design operating limits and receiver/transmitter margin post-system integration.
3 years of experience executing SerDes receiver electrical validation including adaptive equalization characterization, clock recovery analysis, jitter measurement, and eye-diagram quality assessment.
3 years of experience utilizing Python, C++ scripting languages to develop automation scripts for compliance test execution, high-volume eye-scan data collection, and factory-level test flow development.
3 years of experience performing failure analysis and hardware debug to troubleshoot compliance test hardware, fixtures, software, and Device Under Test (DUT) issues affecting SerDes receiver/transmitter electrical performance.
3 years of experience executing SerDes transmitter electrical validation including pre-emphasis tuning, output swing characterization, jitter analysis, and electrical compliance testing for high-speed data interfaces.
3 years of experience characterizing SerDes PHY receiver and transmitter blocks with register-level programming for system validation configuration, including signal integrity parameter optimization and margin analysis.
3 years of experience performing high-speed electrical calibration per CTS and verification of high-speed test equipment including 40GHz+ oscilloscopes and BERT systems to ensure measurement accuracy and traceability.
3 years of experience utilizing advanced high-speed probing techniques to measure differential impedance, jitter, insertion loss, return loss, and eye-diagram metrics for high-speed serial interfaces.

Responsibilities

Support system-level SerDes compliance and high-speed IO validation efforts.
Support the end-to-end compliance process for all portable and desktop programs.
Contribute to the flow bring, validation and correlation.
Perform debugging in collaboration with Hardware and System teams to drive silicon, hardware, and tunable issues for USB-C interface.
Perform PHY adaptation validation with different channel scenarios to verify platform level integration robustness of these 3rd party and Apple IPs.
Perform hardware-level validation as well as simulation efforts to correlation with hardware validation.