Apple · 4 hours ago
Hardware Development Engineer - Data Center Hardware
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expApple is seeking a Hardware Development Engineer for their Data Center hardware engineering team, which focuses on product development from design conception to mass production. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, debug, and validate circuit boards for custom enterprise servers.
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Responsibilities
Design, debug, and validation of a variety of circuit boards for custom enterprise servers
Take complete ownership of subsystems, boards, interfaces and cross-functional relationships
Seek and find the necessary information and support from coworkers, as well as cross-functional teams, to accomplish goals
Collaborate with manufacturing teams to provide support for hardware test engineering and manufacturing
Qualification
Required
BS in electrical or computer engineering required; MS preferred
Minimum 8 years relevant industry work experience
High-speed board design experience with 7+ layer PCBs, including PCB material selection
Schematic entry and management of design constraints for high-speed PCB layout using Cadence tools or similar
Excellent skills to debug problems from the system-level down to the transistor level
Preferred
Experience with PCI Express (PCIe), 100-GbE, USB3/USB4 or similar high-speed serial protocol: electrical design, protocol fundamentals, compliance testing, and debug using protocol analyzer
Design, validation, and debug experience with common low-speed interfaces, such as: I2C, SPI, JTAG, UART and USB1/2
Knowledge of clocking technology e.g. crystals, oscillators and simple PLLs
Knowledge of discrete passive components (resistors, capacitors, inductors) and their characteristics and specifications
Ability to debug jitter problems and their sources through measurement and analysis
Working knowledge of power supply design fundamentals
Experience using test & measurement equipment, such as: high-speed oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and VNAs
Ability to create diagrams and make concise presentations to clearly present information to cross-functional teams
Experience designing systems with concurrently designed custom silicon and working with silicon engineering teams to negotiate features and requirements
Proven leadership of complex system development from concept to mass production
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Company
Apple
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