Hardware Design Engineer

Summary

Do you have a passion for taking on big challenges? Do you love pushing the limits of what’s considered feasible? As part of our Wireless Hardware group, you’ll be responsible for bringing groundbreaking wireless connectivity to the world. On this team, you’ll help improve the performance of our products through innovative system-on-chip designs.

You and your team will build platform architecture that paves the way for all-new experiences, including the ones that allow people to take advantage of our innovations. Together, our goal is to ensure nothing stands in the way of our customers’ connections with their devices. Join us and help build world-renowned wireless systems that connect customers to their world like never before.

We have built the best RF hardware design team on the planet! We’re looking for a dedicated individual to join our team. We support WiFi, Bluetooth, UWB, NFC, and emerging technologies across all Apple products. We're looking for a dedicated engineer to own the design, integration, and verification of digital interfaces and power delivery for wireless subsystems.

About the role

The Hardware Design Engineering role sits at the intersection of wireless silicon, and the rest of the SoCs in our products. You will be responsible for the end-to-end hardware design lifecycle of wireless subsystems — from architecture definition and schematic design through bring-up, characterization, and production validation.

You will work closely with internal silicon, software, and platform teams as well as external chipset vendors to integrate wireless SoCs into Apple products. The role requires a strong foundation in digital interfaces, power distribution networks, firmware and system-level debug.

You should be comfortable working in the lab, writing bare-metal firmware for hardware validation, and traveling internationally (~15%) to support build and bring-up activities.

Responsibilities

• Define system interconnects and power supply architectures in collaboration with silicon and platform teams; implement in product schematics and layout
• Design and validate power supply application circuits, including load step response, ripple, accuracy, and stability analysis
• Bring up, characterize (performance and power), and validate new digital interfaces and protocols on pre-silicon platforms and first silicon
• Develop functional test coverage in bare-metal firmware to stress-test wireless chipsets during silicon bring-up and validation
• Drive root-cause analysis and debug for hardware issues surfaced by test, validation, and cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with external chipset vendors on integration and verification plans

Minimum requirement of a bachelors degree

• Good understanding of protocol specifications for communication interfaces like PCIe, MIPI, I2C, SPI, UART etc.
• Experience with power supply/power management and power distribution networks
• Hands on debug experience with usage of modern lab equipment (DSOs, Logic Analyzers, Protocol Analyzers)

Preferred Qualifications

• MSEE preferred with 2+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in writing basic software routines and test scripts
• Experience with mobile and/or embedded processors and memory systems
• Experience with circuit schematic capture/layout

Additional information

Strong desire to investigate system level issues and drive problems to closure in a team-based environment with a proactive demeanor

Successful track record of delivering highly innovative communication products