Silicon Validation Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

85d

About The Position

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. In this role, you’ll be responsible for lab characterization of Apple custom silicon devices. You will need to assure the system is meeting Apple's high quality power delivery standards before it’s integrated in industry leading devices. The role involves working closely with cross-functional teams within Apple such as hardware, software, architecture and product design teams.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical, Computer or related degree program.
• At least 3 years of experience in silicon validation and power delivery network analysis.

Nice To Haves

• Deep understanding of PMIC and power distribution.
• Good knowledge in hardware components and reading circuit schematics.
• Excellent lab skills and familiarity with lab instruments and measurement techniques.
• Hardware and software debug experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Programming/scripting experience in Python/Tcl.

Responsibilities

• Characterizing complex interactions between custom silicon devices on validation platforms.
• Developing and implementing electrical validation plans for Apple’s SoCs.
• Analyzing the power delivery network and high-speed interfaces.
• Debugging issues on validation hardware and product boards.
• Presenting findings to cross-functional teams.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees