Apple
Hardware Design Engineer
$129K–$225K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred qualification: 2+ years of relevant experience with an MSEE.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree minimum; MSEE preferred.
About the job
Designs, integrates, brings up, and validates wireless subsystem hardware, including digital interfaces and power delivery, from architecture through production validation.
What you'll do
- Define system interconnects and power-supply architectures; implement them in schematics and layout.
- Design and validate power-supply circuits and bring up, characterize, and validate digital interfaces and protocols.
- Write bare-metal firmware for functional testing and lead hardware issue debugging with internal teams and chipset vendors.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Good understanding of communication-interface protocol specifications, such as PCIe, MIPI, I2C, SPI, and UART.
- Experience with power supply/power management and power distribution networks.
- Hands-on debugging with modern lab equipment, including DSOs, Logic Analyzers, and Protocol Analyzers.
Nice to have
- MSEE with 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience writing basic software routines and test scripts; mobile or embedded processors and memory systems; or circuit schematic capture/layout.
Pay
USD 129,300–USD 225,300 base salary
Tools
PCIe, MIPI, I2C, SPI, UART, DSOs, Logic Analyzers, Protocol Analyzers
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