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Data Center Hardware Engineering - Hardware System Integration Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Sunnyvale, CA$129.3k - $194.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Electrical integration engineer for data center compute solutions, working from design conception to mass production with cross-functional collaboration across mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon design, hardware validation, and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Own electrical engineering implementation, documentation, and validation of customized compute designs.
  • Electrical design, schematic capture, board layout guidance, simulation, bringup, debug, and validation.
  • Factory build support.
  • Cross-functional collaboration and negotiation with strong documentation and communications.

Qualifications

  • BS in electrical or computer engineering required
  • Minimum 1+ years relevant industry work experience
  • Working knowledge of design and validation requirements for I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, USB, PCIe, Ethernet (SGMII, RMII, QSFP), DDR Memory
  • Excellent skills to debug problems from system-level to transistor-level
  • Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication skills for functional specs, procedures, and documentation needed for complex system integration
  • MS preferred
  • High-speed board design experience with 10+ layer PCBs, including PCB material selection
  • Schematic entry and management of design constraints for high-speed PCB layout using Cadence tools or similar
  • Understanding of computer architecture and design tradeoffs
  • Experience with PCB bringup and debug using standard EE lab equipment (Soldering, DMM, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer)
  • Experience in circuit design for power, digital, analog, high-speed communications, and/or programmable logic
  • Experience with PCI Express (PCIe), 100-GbE, USB3/USB4 or similar high-speed serial protocols: electrical design, protocol fundamentals, compliance testing, and debug using protocol analyzer
  • Automation and data manipulation script development

Skills

Required:Electrical engineeringHigh-speed digital designPCB design toolsDebug and bringupCommunication

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments as applicable
  • Relocation assistance (where eligible)
  • Employee stock programs and stock purchase plan
Last updated Sep 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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