Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin seeks a Hardware Systems Engineer specializing in board design to help ship next-gen high-performance processors and SoCs.

You will lead schematic capture, layout constraints, and lab characterization, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure power, timing, and signal integrity goals are met. The role covers FPGA/CPLD development, board bring-up and debugging on production boards, and rigorous validation of high-speed interfaces.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 3 years of experience.
• Experience with schematic-level board design.
• Understanding board bring-up and debug strategies.
• Strong fundamentals in EE concepts: transistor operation, signal integrity, timing, and digital logic.
• RTL experience with Verilog or VHDL; FPGA design is a plus.
• Proficiency with scopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, eLoads, and protocol analyzers.

Responsibilities

• 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 debugging.
• Power and signal integrity analysis.
• High-speed interface design and characterization.
• Debug a wide range of issues on test boards and production systems.

Skills

Schematic board design

Board bring-up & debug

Signal integrity

Timing analysis

Digital logic

Verilog/VHDL RTL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Signal generators

eLoads

Protocol analyzers

Job description

Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design

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 or Computer Engineering 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.

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