Mac Systems Architect - Power

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

The Mac System Architecture team has an outstanding opportunity for a power systems architect to influence and drive new product designs. This is a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional lead engineering role encompassing all aspects of power delivery design for a computer system. You will utilize your skills and experience to create system architectures, surprise and delight our customers, and advance our products’ performance, size, power, thermal and cost goals. Our team is collaborative, creative and passionate about what we do and the products we make. Come join us!

Requirements

• MS or BS in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline and a minimum of 10+ years of relevant computer systems architecture experience, with specialization in power electronics, power delivery topologies and PMICs.
• Has core competence and subject matter expertise in personal computing product design focusing on power delivery
• Possesses strong technical breadth across several computer subsystem technologies, e.g., CPU, GPU, storage, memory, display, power and thermal management
• Having system integration experience with power management ICs and power delivery topologies

Nice To Haves

• Possesses strong fundamentals in power electronics and PMIC applications in computer system design
• Experienced in innovative power delivery architectures and topologies for power efficiency, performance and system cost
• Possesses solid understanding of schematics, PCB layout & designs; has experience in bring-up, system debug and hands-on lab environments.
• Has experience with creating & reviewing system power budgets for battery life
• Ability to comprehend the roles of HW/FW/SW layers and how they interact in system design
• Ability to summarize and effectively communicate technical issues and actions to key stakeholders and leadership teams
• Possesses strong analytic, verbal, written and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing architectural guidance and leadership to cross-functional engineering teams to establish new product definitions and requirements
• Providing system architecture guidance by negotiating top level product goals among a broad group of architects and system engineers, technical leads, HW & SW engineering managers, and external vendors
• Determining product system integration feasibility, via collaboration with mechanical, physical, thermal, and electrical engineering stakeholders
• Being involved in authoring system architecture specifications, block diagrams, and conduct review with the product teams
• Collaborating with Performance Architects to define, model and drive improvements in performance, power efficiency and cost
• Analyzing, guiding and supporting thermal management solutions and trade-offs
• Anticipating future SoC requirements and negotiate with internal SoC teams to align with system product goals
• Exploring and championing new product-level features and workflows by being innovative and curious

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree