Hardware Systems Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

8h•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Design, integrate, and validate electrical engineering subsystems for iPhone. Perform failure analysis, root cause investigation, and mitigation development of electrical failures. Develop testing and monitor performance of electrical subsystems during production to ensure reliability and manufacturability mass production over millions of units. Work with cross-functional technology teams to facilitate and validate integration of multidisciplinary systems. Analyze and weigh system trade-offs in order to develop robust and reliable designs. Own designs that continually push the boundaries of technology and ultimately improve the iPhone user experience. International Travel Required 10%. 40 hours/week.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in Systems Design Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Experience working with high density rigid and flexible printed circuit designs, including initial requirement specification, component placement and trace layout.
Incorporating manufacturing design rules for high volume and high precision electrical circuit boards.
Experience with HDI (high density interconnect) circuit boards and layout tools Cadence Allegro.
Experience with complex electrical schematics spanning 100+ pages, and hierarchical design practices and design version control tools such as git.
Using schematic entry tool Cadence System capture and associated tool suites.
Using electronic/electric measurement and debugging equipment & tools such as oscilloscopes, signal analyzers, CT (computed tomography), LIT (laser infrared thermography) and TDR (Time domain reflectometer).
Scripting in BASH to optimize prototype configuration, including experience writing, modifying and maintaining complex test station interface scripts for mass production factory environments.
Experience with microcontroller and SOC (System on Chip) architecture to program interface protocols and data processing routines on high-speed digital and analog electric circuitry.
Experience with high-speed interfaces such USB 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1, PCIE, LPDP, MIPI and SPMI.
Experience in data collection, analysis and preparation for high-quality presentation material at executive leadership level.

Responsibilities

Design, integrate, and validate electrical engineering subsystems for iPhone.
Perform failure analysis, root cause investigation, and mitigation development of electrical failures.
Develop testing and monitor performance of electrical subsystems during production to ensure reliability and manufacturability mass production over millions of units.
Work with cross-functional technology teams to facilitate and validate integration of multidisciplinary systems.
Analyze and weigh system trade-offs in order to develop robust and reliable designs.
Own designs that continually push the boundaries of technology and ultimately improve the iPhone user experience.