Hardware Systems Engineer — High‑Speed Board Design

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design to help design and manufacture next‑generation, high‑performance, power‑efficient processor systems on chip.

You’ll ensure Apple products can seamlessly handle tasks loved by millions, joining the Silicon Validation Hardware team to enable the next generation of devices. You’ll work on wide-ranging activities from high‑speed board design, test and characterization circuits in the lab, to debugging complex system‑level issues,

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical, Computer or related degree with 10 years of experience.
• Strong background in high-speed board design and board bring‑up.

Responsibilities

• Develop specs from cross-functional team requirements.
• Capture schematics, design circuits, define layouts and constraints.
• Develop FPGA and CPLD designs.
• Board bring-up, testing, characterization and debugging.
• Analyze power and signal integrity.
• Design and characterize high-speed interfaces.
• Debug issues on test boards and production systems.

Skills

Schematic board design

Board bringup and debug

Signal integrity & timing

RTL Verilog/VHDL

FPGA design

Education

BS in Electrical/Computer or related degree

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Spectrum analyzers

Signal generators

eLoads

Protocol analyzers

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design to help design and manufacture next‑generation, high‑performance, power‑efficient processor systems on chip.

You’ll ensure Apple products can seamlessly handle tasks loved by millions, joining the Silicon Validation Hardware team to enable the next generation of devices. You’ll work on wide-ranging activities from high‑speed board design, test and characterization circuits in the lab, to debugging complex system‑level issues,