Silicon Bring-Up Engineer — Lab Automation & Data Platforms

Apple Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Discounted products and services

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Francisco Bay Area invites applications for a Lab Systems Engineer to bring up Apple Silicon at the bench and build internal software platforms for hardware and lab teams.

You will deploy scalable data pipelines, automate lab environments (bare metal macOS, Docker, Kubernetes), and develop AI-assisted tooling to accelerate data analysis and validation across global labs.

Qualifications

• BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field preferred with 6+ years of experience.
• Proven collaboration across teams with clear ownership and communication.
• Familiarity with databases (SQL/NoSQL), file systems, and object storage.
• Direct experience with silicon bring-up or hardware validation including register-level debug.
• Experience with Docker and deploying/operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure for lab or validation services.

Responsibilities

• Lead bring-up of new SoCs and boards from first power-on through validation sign-off, register-level debug, protocol analysis, and root-causing issues across hardware, software, and test infrastructure.
• Run validation test plans against design specs and triage failures at the bench with lab instrumentation (scopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers).
• Build and maintain internal tools, dashboards, and automation that give hardware and lab engineers visibility into lab state, device health, and validation progress.
• Develop shared instrumentation/automation libraries used across lab teams and APIs/data pipelines that tie lab instrumentation and validation tooling into a platform.
• Apply AI-assisted development to lab tooling, including plugins, custom skills, and agentic workflows.
• Deploy and operate the Kubernetes infrastructure these tools run on, reducing manual toil and improving observability across bring-up and lab automation workflows.

Skills

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Hardware bring-up

Lab instrumentation

AI/ML tooling

Data pipelines

Debugging at bench

APIs

CI/CD

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Francisco Bay Area invites applications for a Lab Systems Engineer to bring up Apple Silicon at the bench and build internal software platforms for hardware and lab teams.

You will deploy scalable data pipelines, automate lab environments (bare metal macOS, Docker, Kubernetes), and develop AI-assisted tooling to accelerate data analysis and validation across global labs.