Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200636176-3956

Summary

Do you want to help build the next Apple datacenter platform? Our team is looking for
individuals with real passion for deploying outstanding systems.

The hardware validation team is part of the system hardware development organization
responsible for delivering the customized platforms for Apple’s future application
environments. Through innovation and dedication, team members work collaboratively
and strive to deliver the high quality platforms that Apple is known for.

Description

We are looking to hire a System Hardware Validation Engineer for datacenter systems.
The primary job focus is in architecting, developing, and implementing validation plans
for datacenter systems designed for large scale deployment and integrated use and
identifying and resolving component, system, and solution level design issues to ensure
the quality, reliability, and performance for these systems. You will be working with the
latest hardware and software. This is a highly collaborative position, working cross-
functionally with system hardware, silicon, and software design teams. You will design
test plans, flows, and frameworks for validating hardware and datacenter solutions and
support the team in enabling and executing these validation plans. This position is for
someone with deep understanding in the validation of datacenter systems and is hard-
working and passionate about architecting comprehensive hardware and system
validation plans and investigating complex issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of experience in datacenter hardware and system validation

• Demonstrated experience in architecting validation test plans, procedures, and frameworks for all components of datacenter platforms

• Ability to review architecture and system documents and identify validation test cases and test plans

• Hands on experience with hardware and system validation and tracking, analyzing, and reporting of critical data and results

• Expertise in hardware bring up, debug and troubleshooting

• Experience with test automation and large scale testing

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 8+ years of experience in datacenter hardware and system validation

• Expertise in leveraging tools, benchmarks, and test solutions to evaluate system behavior and identify patterns and test cases that rapidly expose design flaws

• Ability to identify, design, and develop tools that can expand test coverage

• Experience developing and optimizing test framework and tools to create a controlled validation environment to support large scale validation

• Experience interfacing with cross functional teams to successfully deliver results

• Ability to design, define, and deploy new validation strategies to support new and changing platform architectures and interfaces

• Deep knowledge of computer architecture and IO protocols

• Ability to think creatively, problem solve, and innovate

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