Apple
Data Center Hardware Engineering - Hardware System Integration Engineer
$150K–$278K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry work experience in hardware or systems engineering; 7+ years is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Owns end-to-end hardware engineering for high-performance compute platforms, from specifications and schematic capture through bring-up, validation, and factory production support.
What you'll do
- Design hardware systems and capture schematics; guide board layout and manage design constraints.
- Run signal-integrity simulation, board bring-up, validation, and systematic hardware debugging.
- Develop specifications and integration documentation, collaborate across engineering teams, and support factory builds and sustaining engineering.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Working knowledge of common low- and high-speed digital interfaces, including I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, USB, PCIe, Ethernet, and DDR memory.
- Broad circuit design experience across multiple domains and experience with PCB bring-up and characterization using standard EE lab equipment.
- Ability to debug complex hardware issues from system level to circuit/transistor level; strong communication and technical documentation skills.
Nice to have
- High-speed PCB design experience, including 10+ layer boards, material selection, and stackup definition; proficiency with Cadence tools or equivalent.
- Hands-on high-speed serial protocol experience, familiarity with computer architecture, scripting experience, or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
Pay
$150,400 to $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe, Ethernet, USB, DDR, I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, Cadence
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