Electrical Engineer Platform Architecture Systems Prototyping

Apples Platform Architecture Engineering team builds fully functional prototypes of systems that cut across domains and technologies. Were a small self-contained group of electrical mechanical FPGA and software engineers who take an idea and make it real. Those range from tools that teams across the company come to depend on to proofs-of-concept for products and capabilities that inform Apples looking for an electrical engineer to own board designs end to end. Youll work closely with our cross-functional team and often alongside Apples domain experts. We ideate prototype and demo often then move on quickly once weve learned what we can. No two projects are alike.

At any given time youll be the electrical engineer on one or more small focused project teams independently owning every EE decision and deliverable with strong teammates around you when you need them. This means taking a board design from architecture to a working prototype: defining the system capturing schematics and driving bring-up and debug. The work spans high-speed digital analog power and mixed-signal design and changes with each project.

Define the board and system architecture for new prototypes selecting the right components and technologies for each schematics across high-speed digital analog power and mixed-signal designs and define high-quality electrical constraints on the bring up debug and characterize prototypes using lab instrumentation through to a working and execute test and validation plans including functional verification and signal and resolve hardware issues and support builds and rework alongside vendors and lab closely with cross-functional counterparts to bring up the full articulate design decisions justify schedule forecasts and present data and findings to partners and leadership.

BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering designing and developing custom PCBs and electronic taking board designs through the full cycle: architecture schematic capture board bring-up and debug.

MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering degree and 10 years of relevant work fundamentals across the breadth of electrical engineering with deep hands-on expertise in one or more core domains (for example high-speed digital and signal integrity analog and power or RF).nExperience with one or more high-speed interfaces and their design challenges (e.g. PCIe USB/USB4 Ethernet HDMI DDR).nExperience designing embedded hardware integrating a processor (SoC or MCU) with power clocking and sensors or other with FPGA-based board design and working alongside RTL to quickly become proficient in an unfamiliar domain enough to make sound architectural decisions and design well in track record of defining and driving loosely scoped work with creative ambitious approaches to complex with AI tools as a productivity/capability multiplier balanced by experience-backed intuition and sound judgment about when to rely on them.