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iPhone Hardware System Design Electrical Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Cupertino, CA$150.4k - $277.6k + equity + bonusfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Hardware design position spanning concept to mass production for iPhone, focusing on system-level, analog and high-speed digital design, with hands-on lab debugging and collaboration across multi-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • This is a unique hardware design position that starts at product concept and continues all the way through to mass production.
  • Design of complex system architectures
  • Hands on experience with lab test equipment to debug difficult/intermittent hardware issues
  • Prototype design and validation with custom silicon
  • Use of scripting languages to assist with hw development
  • Strong collaboration and leadership within dynamic multi-functional teams
  • Analyze solutions and make system design trade-offs
  • Familiarity with taking a product from early architecture through to production

Qualifications

  • BS Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years industry experience
  • Electrical engineering fundamentals including analog and high speed digital design
  • Broad experience across different applications and technologies
  • Hands on experience with lab test equipment to debug difficult/intermittent hardware issues
  • Schematic capture and rigid/flexible PCB layout
  • Fundamentals of Signal and Power Integrity
  • Low voltage power regulation and delivery
  • Prototype design and validation with custom silicon
  • Use of scripting languages to assist with hw development
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
  • Familiarity with the challenges of taking a product from early architecture through to production
  • Ability to analyze solutions and make system design trade-offs
  • Proven track record of leading dynamic multi-functional teams
  • Exposure to solving unwanted coupling and interference between subsystems

Skills

Required:Analog designHigh speed digital designSchematic capturePCB layout (rigid/flexible)Signal integrityPower integrity / low voltage power deliveryLab debuggingScriptingSystem architectureLeadership / team collaborationProblem solving / trade-offsCommunication

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
  • relocation
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Apple shareholder opportunities (discretionary stock programs)
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.

Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.

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