System Design Engineer

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

As a System Design Engineer, you will design hardware to validate board-level system functionality and electrical performance of new Apple products. Working cross-functionally with design, firmware, software, and operations teams, you will play a key role in ensuring Apple's quality standards are exceeded and our customers receive the best possible product experience. Lead the design of custom hardware testing fixtures, software (firmware and/or FPGA IP), and instrumentation critical to Apple's product integrity. Drive the development of testing hardware and software instrumentation in parallel with product design timelines. Develop a deep understanding of the full product architecture at both the hardware and system level to deliver complete and thorough testing solutions. Collaborate cross-functionally with design, firmware, software, and operations teams to develop and test groundbreaking products. Apply strong communication skills and technical expertise to lead cross-functional efforts from concept through execution. You will own and lead the system architecture, hardware design, and implementation of product testing on new Apple products from prototype to mass production. You will lead our organization in developing custom electrical instruments and algorithms, software tools for data analysis, diagnostic tests, or solve any problem or feature in the test process you desire, and design hardware test fixtures both locally and at the factory. You will work closely with the system design and diagnostics teams early in the product development lifecycle to learn the system architecture, influence product’s DFT (design for test) and provide suggested tests for functionality and performance. Be the technical expert for designing, understanding, presenting, communicating and debugging, the system testing and testing processes of your product. You will be a key liaison between our organization and the Contract Manufacturers to ensure that our test station hardware and software is validated and ready for manufacturing testing. This position requires the ability to deal with a dynamic and rapidly changing environment requiring decision-making with ambiguous information. This includes documentation of tests and developing/executing product test plans, specifying test stations and diagnostics for testing product features, and implementing test process control and parametric data collection.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Good understanding analog, digital, and power electronics hardware architectures and design
Experience in schematic & PCB layout design using Allegro or a similar CAD tool
Ability to design and debug complex electrical schematics and PCB layouts and propose clear, relevant experiments
Good oral & written communication skills - be able to communicate complex engineering concepts clearly and concisely to various cross functional teams and leadership
Working knowledge of USB 3.2, USB-PD, Display Port, PCIe, I2C, SPI technologies and protocols, and design
Prior experience with bed of nails test fixture and designing custom test instruments.
Basic software engineering experience (writing, editing, debugging Python or LUA scripts, C/ C++ etc.)
Experience in FPGA development (Verilog, SysVerilog, VHDL)
Prior technical leadership and/or project management experience
Prior experience of performing parametric data statistical analysis (CPK, GRR etc)

Nice To Haves

Willingness to travel domestically and/or internationally up to 10% of the time; estimated 8-10 days per trip.

Responsibilities

Design hardware to validate board-level system functionality and electrical performance of new Apple products.
Lead the design of custom hardware testing fixtures, software (firmware and/or FPGA IP), and instrumentation critical to Apple's product integrity.
Drive the development of testing hardware and software instrumentation in parallel with product design timelines.
Develop a deep understanding of the full product architecture at both the hardware and system level to deliver complete and thorough testing solutions.
Collaborate cross-functionally with design, firmware, software, and operations teams to develop and test groundbreaking products.
Apply strong communication skills and technical expertise to lead cross-functional efforts from concept through execution.
Own and lead the system architecture, hardware design, and implementation of product testing on new Apple products from prototype to mass production.
Lead the organization in developing custom electrical instruments and algorithms, software tools for data analysis, diagnostic tests, or solve any problem or feature in the test process.
Design hardware test fixtures both locally and at the factory.
Work closely with the system design and diagnostics teams early in the product development lifecycle to learn the system architecture, influence product’s DFT (design for test) and provide suggested tests for functionality and performance.
Be the technical expert for designing, understanding, presenting, communicating and debugging, the system testing and testing processes of your product.
Be a key liaison between the organization and the Contract Manufacturers to ensure that test station hardware and software is validated and ready for manufacturing testing.
Document tests and develop/execute product test plans.
Specify test stations and diagnostics for testing product features.
Implement test process control and parametric data collection.