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Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design

Apple· Silicon Validation Hardware / Silicon Technologies
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Hybrid (Austin, Texas, United States), Hybrid (Cupertino, California, United States)not specifiedPosted 6mo ago

About the role

Hardware Systems Engineer specializing in high-speed board design to support next-generation power-efficient SoCs. Responsible for developing specifications, schematic capture, layout constraints, board bring-up, test and characterization, and debugging across cross-functional teams within Apple’s Silicon Technologies group.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related degree with 10 years of experience
  • Experience with schematic level board design
  • Understanding board bringup and debug strategies
  • Strong fundamentals in EE concepts; transistor operation, signal integrity and transmission lines, timing analysis, digital logic
  • RTL experience using Verilog or VHDL; preferably FPGA design experience
  • 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

Skills

Required:Schematic designBoard bring-up and debuggingSignal integrityTest automation
Nice to have:RTL / FPGA design
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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