Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200660416-0157

Summary

The iPad Hardware Team in Austin, TX is looking for engineers who are motivated by the opportunity to take on big challenges. Apply your skills in electrical engineering, system integration, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to make design decisions that will benefit millions of iPad users worldwide!

Our team of System Electrical Engineers own entire products from concept definition through shipping to customers. We sit at the center of Apple’s wider engineering team, working collaboratively with mechanical engineering, software, silicon engineering and other module teams such as wireless, battery, camera, sensing, display, and factory test.

Our team is collaborative, creative and passionate about what we do and the products we make.

Come join us!

Description

This is a unique hardware design position that starts at product concept and continues all the way through to mass production.You will be at the center of iPad product development with a critical impact on overall design.

Day to day tasks involve electrical design, simulation, bringup, debug, and validation for iPads. Routine responsibilities also include factory build support, and working with multi-functional technology teams in a fast-paced environment.

There will be opportunities for international travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering or equivalent

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience designing consumer electronics and/or embedded systems; working with dynamic multi-functional teams

• Strong EE fundamentals (analog and digital design, signal/power integrity, etc)

• Comfortable in a lab environment using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in prototyping, bring-up, debug and validation

• Schematic capture and rigid/flexible PCB layout

• Ability to analyze solutions and make system design trade-offs

• Low voltage power regulation and delivery

• Demonstrated ability to understand technology and debug problems at varying levels of abstraction, from the system-level down to the silicon/transistor level

• Solid understanding of design and validation requirements for common interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, JTAG, I2S) and preferably high-speed interfaces (e.g. USB, MIPI, PCIe, HDMI, DP, Thunderbolt, DDR Memory, Ethernet)

• Understanding of computer architecture and design tradeoffs

• Exposure to numerical modeling, simulation, and analysis tools such as Spice, 2d/3d field solvers, power & signal integrity

• Use of scripting languages to assist with hardware development, and data analysis

• Beyond technical capability, we prize curiosity, creativity, integrity, leadership, collaboration, and a passion for learning

• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .