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Battery Architect

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (San Diego, CA)$166.6k - $296kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Architect for Battery Management Systems (BMS) focusing on next-generation silicon, hardware, firmware, and algorithms. Leads cross-functional efforts to define BMS goals, requirements, and roadmaps; guides domain teams; analyzes trade-offs and drives architecture decomposition. Minimal travel required (<5%).

Responsibilities

  • Work with cross functional teams to establish BMS goals and requirements
  • Enable successful delivery of BMS systems for new Apple products
  • Lead the definition of next generation of BMS silicon chipsets
  • Guide the BMS domain teams in developing efficient and scalable solutions
  • Engage with multi-disciplinary architects to align on next generation objectives and BMS roadmap
  • Lead the team to develop an architecture decomposition with justified trade-offs between technology options
  • Tackle challenging trade-offs and analyze comparative options with quantitative value proposition assessments
  • This role involves minimal travel. < 5% travel

Qualifications

  • BS degree
  • Experience in a battery, systems, or related architecture role
  • Experience developing battery management solutions using embedded controllers
  • MS degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with customer interfacing engagement to understand their system, requirements, and problems to define a system level solution
  • Experience in collaborative environments with multiple internal and external technology partners
  • Experienced developing engineering requirement specification for BMS systems and the functional decomposition into BMS HW, FW, SW, IC solutions
  • Experienced working with silicon teams to drive BMS hardware requirements/specifications, architecture/feature trade-offs and design compliance
  • Familiar with battery management algorithms and their interaction with HW, FW, application platform systems, and manufacturing practices
  • Familiarity with detailed workings of different battery chemistries and their limitations

Skills

Required:BMS architecture and system decompositionCross-functional leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments may be available
  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • Stock programs including Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and discretionary RSUs
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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