Apple
Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design
$150K–$278K
Austin, Texas +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California - Experience
- 3 years of experience.
- Education
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related degree program.
About the job
Designs and validates high-speed boards and test circuits for next-generation silicon, including lab characterization and system-level debugging.
What you'll do
- Develop specifications with cross-functional teams; perform schematic capture, circuit design, layout and routing constraint definition, design reviews, and simulation.
- Develop FPGA and CPLD designs; bring up, test, characterize, and debug boards and production systems.
- Analyze power and signal integrity and design and characterize high-speed interfaces.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related degree program.
- 3 years of experience.
Nice to have
- Schematic-level board design, board bring-up and debugging, and strong EE fundamentals including signal integrity, transmission lines, timing analysis, and digital logic.
- RTL using Verilog or VHDL, preferably FPGA design; hardware lab equipment proficiency; test automation using Perl/Tcl/Python.
Pay
$150,400 and $277,600 USD base salary
Tools
FPGA, CPLD, Verilog, VHDL, Perl, Tcl, Python
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