Lead Hardware Systems Integration Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. Data Center Hardware Engineering team seeks a Hardware System Integration Engineer to own the end-to-end hardware lifecycle for high‑performance compute designs—from initial specification and schematic capture through board bring‑up, validation, and mass production.

You will partner cross‑functionally with mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon, and reliability teams to ensure design requirements are met with precision at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelors in EE or CE or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years hardware or systems engineering experience.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces and DDR memory.
• Circuit design across power, digital, analog, high-speed domains.
• Bring-up and debug of hardware with lab equipment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• 10+ layer high-speed PCB design experience.
• Cadence schematic entry and constraints proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware system design and schematic capture for high-performance compute platforms.
• Perform signal integrity simulation, board bring-up, and debug from system to component level.
• Develop specs, validation procedures, and integration documentation.
• Validate high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR) and perform tests.
• Collaborate with mechanical, firmware, software, silicon, and reliability teams.
• Lead factory build support and sustaining engineering through mass production.
• Root-cause analysis of complex hardware failures using EE lab tools.
• Apply DFM/DFT/DFA for scalable manufacturability.

Skills

I2C/SMBus

SPI

JTAG

USB

PCIe

Ethernet

DDR

High-speed PCB design

Schematic entry

Python scripting

Cadence tools

Education

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence tools

Job description

Apple Inc. Data Center Hardware Engineering team seeks a Hardware System Integration Engineer to own the end-to-end hardware lifecycle for high‑performance compute designs—from initial specification and schematic capture through board bring‑up, validation, and mass production.

You will partner cross‑functionally with mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon, and reliability teams to ensure design requirements are met with precision at scale.