Apple
Hardware Systems Engineer - Board Design
$116K–$195K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 0 years of experience.
- Education
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related degree program.
About the job
Designs and validates high-speed hardware boards and test circuits, then brings them up, characterizes them, and debugs system-level issues for silicon engineering.
What you'll do
- Develop specifications and perform schematic capture, circuit design, layout and routing constraint definition, design reviews, and simulation.
- Develop FPGA and CPLD solutions; design and characterize high-speed interfaces.
- Bring up, test, characterize, and debug boards and production systems, including power and signal integrity analysis.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related degree program.
- 0 years of experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with schematic-level board design and board bring-up and debug strategies; strong EE fundamentals in transistor operation, signal integrity, transmission lines, timing analysis, and digital logic.
- RTL experience using Verilog or VHDL, preferably FPGA design; proficiency with standard hardware lab equipment and test automation using Perl/Tcl/Python.
Pay
$115,773 and $194,700 annualized (USD, base salary)
Tools
FPGA, CPLD, Verilog, VHDL, Perl, Tcl, Python
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