Hardware Systems Engineer

Hardware Systems Engineer

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Prototype bring‐up, debugging, functional verification, and electrical characterization. Manage engineering builds by partnering with and driving communications among cross‐functional teams to solve new product development challenges. Define, recommend, and implement component level reworks in partnership with internal engineering teams. Develop and implement automated PCBA and system level processes to increase yields and throughput. Support system and board level debug, reworking, assembly and reworks on prototype hardware. Track, report, and identify quality issues and/or failure trends. Work closely with technicians and engineers to ensure the prompt and accurate completion of work. 40 hours/week.
Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
4 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:
Defining, recommending and implementing component level reworks within major PCBs in consumer electronics products in partnership with internal engineering teams for product development supporting mass production using electrical engineering principles.
Developing layout strategies for PCB, Rigid PCB, Flex, and Rigid-Flex including material selection, stack-up planning
Utilizing subject matter expert knowledge of SMT process including BGA and fine pitch soldering rework process.
Developing and implementing automated PCBA and system level processes to increase rework & build yields and throughput.
Designing for EMI minimization, signal integrity, noise suppression
Designing for manufacturing/DFM and designing for reliability experience
Utilizing supporting system level troubleshooting & debugging from chip level to system level.
Utilizing experience with tracking issues, reporting trends, and identifying quality issues and developing corrective actions.
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Hardware Systems Engineer

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Design 54V DC power circuitry for data center AI/ML servers, including hot-swap controllers, safety circuitry, and point-of-load 54V DC/DC regulators. Analyze component datasheets and select components for schematic capture. Coordinate layout of highly constrained 16+ layer PCBs, including HDI and fine pitch BGAs. Forecast and plan circuit board design time to meet constrained schedules. Drive design trade-offs across manufacturing, testing, thermal, performance, reliability, battery life, and electrical stakeholders. Perform prototype bring-up, debug, functional verification, and electrical characterization. Use advanced lab tools such as 25 GHz oscilloscopes, network analyzers, and BERT scopes to assess the quality and robustness of electrical designs. Analyze factory-scale data to adjust signal parameters for maximum margin. Review designs of factory test fixtures and ensure manufacturing test plans provide adequate coverage to ensure the design is assembled correctly. Debug issues found in manufacturing, providing feedback on root causes, and identify corrective action for design or manufacturing processes in preparation for high volume production. Communicate and present status on concurrent top issues and deadlines. 40 hours/week.
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering or related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required:

Using high-power electronic load (eLoad) test equipment to test 1000+W 54V DC power circuitry.
Characterizing high-voltage fuse components for use in server power distribution.
Working with product safety engineering to understand test requirements, add appropriate safety features in board design, and understand 3rd party lab capability and setup.
Designing analog circuitry for real-time sensor telemetry feedback to dynamic power control features on SoCs.
Measuring I2C, SPI, UART, clocks, and crystals with high-bandwidth oscilloscopes.
Developing test code using Python to automate system-level validation.
Understanding of NXP microcontroller firmware written in C programming language to debug servers.
Utilizing Cadence System Capture and internal simulation tools to design printed circuit boards.
Understanding of interaction between many integrated circuits on a circuit board, including electrical compatibility, leakage, bus standards, and protocols.
Writing detailed electrical validation plans with specific instructions for each interface on circuit boards.
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Hardware Systems Engineer

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
APPLE INC has the following available in Austin , Texas. Create and maintain best-in-class system tests and testing infrastructure to validate new Mac and iPad system hardware in development. Create and improve tests, test frameworks, and test automations to validate the design of complex hardware systems. Create and maintain test data automations for large scale test data collection, analysis and reporting. Work with test engineers to enable test execution and data analysis. Collaborate with cross-functional software, hardware and silicon design engineers to define and enable best system level validation
tests. Develop automated high-speed signal integrity test software tools for use in hardware development of laptop, desktop, server, tablet and mobile phone products. Collaborate and support production test engineers in production factories in enabling high-confidence, large-volume data collection using high-speed signal integrity test tools. Development of automation software framework which is the foundation for signal integrity data collection tools, as well as other system hardware validation tests. 40 hours/week.
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering or related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience and/or education must include:

Using a CAD Software to review hardware system and board designs.
Identifying functional hardware design and test goals in system block diagrams and board design schematics.
Coding in Python to create hardware tests for hardware components and subsystems.
Creating and maintaining object-oriented test automation frameworks to enable the development of hardware validations and production tests.
Working with GIT or other code revision control systems in shared software development projects.
Utilizing Redis, PostgreSQL or other databases for test data management.
Using Splunk Tableau or other data processing/visualization tools to automate data analysis.
Utilizing Jira, Bugzilla or equivalent issue management tools for projects.
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