Apple

Data Center Hardware Engineering - Hardware System Integration Engineer

Apple$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years in hardware or systems engineering
  • Familiarity with digital interfaces: I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, USB, PCIe, Ethernet, DDR
  • Experience with circuit design in power, digital, analog, and high-speed communications
  • Proven skills in PCB bring-up and lab-equipment characterization
  • Ability to debug hardware from system to circuit levels
  • Strong communication skills with experience in technical documentation

Responsibilities

  • Lead the complete hardware engineering lifecycle for high-performance compute designs
  • Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to meet design requirements
  • Conduct board bring-up, validation, and provide factory build support
  • Generate functional specifications and integration procedures
  • Ensure precision in design and scaling across hardware components

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and high-performance designs
  • Collaborative environment with diverse cross-functional teams
  • Access to professional development and training opportunities
  • Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art engineering tools
Full Job Description
Description

As a Hardware System Integration Engineer, you will own the end-to-end hardware engineering lifecycle for high-performance compute designs - from initial specification and schematic capture through board bring-up, validation, and factory build support. You will serve as a cross-functional partner to mechanical, power, software, firmware, silicon, and reliability teams, ensuring design requirements are met with precision and at scale. This role demands both technical expertise and strong communication skills to drive alignment across a broad set of stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience

3+ years of relevant industry work experience in hardware or systems engineering

Working knowledge of common low-speed and high-speed digital interfaces: I2C/SMBus, SPI, JTAG, USB, PCIe, Ethernet (SGMII, RMII, QSFP), and DDR memory

Broad circuit design experience across multiple domains: power, digital, analog, high-speed communications, and/or programmable logic

Experience with PCB bring-up and characterization using standard EE lab equipment (soldering, DMM, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer)

Demonstrated ability to debug complex hardware issues from the system level down to the circuit/transistor level

Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with experience producing functional specs, integration procedures, and technical documentation

Preferred Qualifications

High-speed PCB design experience with 10+ layer boards, including PCB material selection and stackup definition

Proficiency with schematic entry and high-speed PCB layout constraint management using Cadence tools or equivalent

Hands-on PCIe, 100-GbE, USB3/USB4, or similar high-speed serial protocol experience, including compliance testing and protocol analyzer debug

Familiarity with computer architecture concepts and hardware design tradeoffs

Experience developing automation or data manipulation scripts

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

7+ years of relevant industry work experience in hardware or systems engineering

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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