Data Center Systems Debug Engineer (SoC & Hardware)

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Systems Debug Engineer to provide hands‑on support for data center development programs and labs. You will triage, debug, and perform failure analysis across silicon validation, software, hardware test, and reliability teams in a cross‑functional lab environment.

You will set up data center hardware, run tests on pre‑production hardware, and document results, collaborating with hardware development, validation, and software teams to scale lab deployments.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4–8 years in systems engineering, hardware integration, or manufacturing engineering in a server or HPC environment.
• Hands‑on experience with SoC troubleshooting, board‑level debug, failure analysis and diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Handle data center escalations end-to-end—analyze, reproduce, and root‑cause complex issues across design, prototyping, validation, and production.
• Pilot proof‑of‑concept hardware and software, and prepare new platforms for at‑scale deployment in the data center.
• Build scripts and tools to provision hardware, analyze large data sets and logs, and run benchmarking frameworks.
• Support early product development by setting up custom and OEM data center hardware, running functional checks and documenting results.
• Ensure downstream teams successfully adopt and integrate new hardware platforms.
• Support physical and remote lab activities to enable new programs and cross‑functional teams.
• Create reports, dashboards and presentations for high priority escalations.

Skills

SoC troubleshooting

Board‑level debugging

Python

Bash

Kernel logs

SDLC/validation workflows

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Ansible

PXE/Netboot

JTAG/CI hardware tools

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Systems Debug Engineer to provide hands‑on support for data center development programs and labs. You will triage, debug, and perform failure analysis across silicon validation, software, hardware test, and reliability teams in a cross‑functional lab environment.

You will set up data center hardware, run tests on pre‑production hardware, and document results, collaborating with hardware development, validation, and software teams to scale lab deployments.