Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design at Apple

Cupertino, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

07 Jan, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Schematic Capture, Circuit Design, FPGA Development, Board Bring-Up, Testing, Debugging, Power Analysis, Signal Integrity, High-Speed Interface Design, Verilog, VHDL, Test Automation, Hardware Lab Equipment

Industry

Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

Description

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. As a member of the Silicon Validation Hardware team you’ll be critical to enabling the next generation of incredible Apple products. This position involves a wide range of activities including high-speed board designs that push the limits of technology, designing and implementing test and characterization circuits in the lab, and debugging complicated system level problems. You’ll work closely with designers from many groups within Apple and be a key contributor to the silicon engineering effort. DESCRIPTION . Developing specifications based on requirements from cross-functional teams • Schematic capture, circuit design, definition of layout and routing constraints, design review and simulation • FPGA and CPLD development • Board bring-up, testing and characterization, and debug • Power and signal integrity analysis • High-speed interface design and characterization • Debug a wide range of issues on test boards and production systems MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS BS in Electrical, Computer or related degree program with 3 years of experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience with schematic level board design Understanding board bringup and debug strategies Strong fundamentals in EE concepts; transistor operation, signal integrity and transmission lines, timing analysis, digital logic RTL experience using Verilog or VHDL. Preferably FPGA design experience Proficiency with standard hardware lab equipment including scopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, eLoads and protocol analyzers. Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python.

Responsibilities

The Hardware Systems Engineer will develop specifications, design high-speed boards, and debug complex system-level problems. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful design and manufacturing of next-generation processors.