Embedded System Engineer - Board Design

Summary

Posted: Jan 15, 2025 Role Number:200586843 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 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

Minimum Qualifications • Experience designing complex high-speed embedded systems with demonstrated record of success. • BS in Electrical, Computer or related degree program with at least 3 years of experience. Key Qualifications Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications • Broad experience with high-speed, high-power embedded system design • Experience defining routing constraints for high-speed interfaces • Design and analysis of power supplies and power integrity analysis • Proficiency with standard hardware lab equipment including scopes, logic and spectrum analyzers, signal generators, eLoads and protocol analyzers • Test automation expertise using Perl/Tcl/Python • Board level analog and digital circuit design experience Education & Experience Education & Experience Additional Requirements Additional Requirements More • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant. Apply Job!