Apple
Lab Systems Engineer, Silicon Bring-Up & Automation Platforms
$185K–$325K
San Francisco Bay Area, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience; preferred qualification: MS with 6+ years of experience.
- Education
- BS; preferred: MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Brings up and validates Apple Silicon while building and operating automation, data, and AI/ML platforms for distributed hardware labs.
What you'll do
- Lead SoC and board bring-up, validation, register-level debugging, and failure triage with lab instrumentation.
- Build tools, APIs, libraries, dashboards, and data pipelines for lab automation, instrumentation, and validation visibility.
- Deploy and operate Kubernetes infrastructure and develop AI/ML tools for lab data analysis, monitoring, and predictive modeling.
What they ask for
- BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Strong Python fundamentals and experience building production-quality internal tools, APIs, and services.
- Experience with silicon bring-up or hardware validation, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, lab instrumentation, or AI/ML and statistical modeling pipelines.
Pay
USD $184,700–$324,800 base salary
Tools
Python, SQL/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, macOS
AI focus
Build AI/ML tools to accelerate lab data analysis, use predictive modeling to optimize equipment power utilization, and apply AI-assisted development including plugins, custom skills, and agentic workflows.
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