Apple
Hardware Design Engineer
$185K–$325K
Sunnyvale, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience; preferred qualification also mentions an MSEE with some years of relevant experience.
- Education
- BS; MSEE preferred.
About the job
Own end-to-end design, integration, bring-up, and validation of digital interfaces and power delivery for wireless subsystems in Apple products.
What you'll do
- Define system interconnects and power architectures; implement them in product schematics and layout.
- Design and validate power supply circuits and bring up, characterize, and validate interfaces and protocols.
- Develop bare-metal firmware test coverage and drive hardware root-cause analysis with internal teams and chipset vendors.
What they ask for
- BS degree and minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience specifying, integrating, and bringing up digital communication interfaces, including PCIe, MIPI, I2C, SPI, and UART.
- Experience designing and simulating power supplies, power management, and power distribution networks.
- Hands-on hardware debugging using DSOs, Logic Analyzers, and Protocol Analyzers.
Nice to have
- MSEE; experience writing software routines and test scripts.
- Experience with embedded processors and memory systems, schematic capture/layout, or offshore manufacturing partners.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (USD, base salary range)
Tools
PCIe, MIPI, I2C, SPI, UART, DSOs, Logic Analyzers, Protocol Analyzers
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