Apple

Phone System Design Engineer - Power Modeling

Apple$120K — $160K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Knowledge in power and performance metrics for CPU, GPU, memory, and battery-powered devices
  • Hands-on lab experience with multimeters and oscilloscopes
  • Proficient in automation and programming (e.g. Matlab or Python) for data analysis
  • Experience in consumer hardware or electronics industries
  • Familiarity with battery modeling and management concepts

Responsibilities

  • Drive system power consumption modeling for iPhone innovations
  • Publish power estimates for customer usage scenarios
  • Lead discussions on battery life and thermal design
  • Validate system-level power across iPhone development
  • Conduct hands-on investigations and debug power-related issues
  • Identify power-saving opportunities within hardware designs
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance power methodologies

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence future iPhone innovations
  • Engagement in cross-functional teamwork
  • Variety of hands-on experimental work in lab settings
  • Chance to work in a leading consumer electronics company
  • Potential for international travel as part of the role
Full Job Description
The iPhone Hardware System Design Team is seeking an enthusiastic Electrical Engineer to drive and influence future iPhone innovations. In this role, you will be at the center of iPhone product development, developing system power consumption and usage models, with a critical impact on overall design. Are you ready for the challenge?

This position starts at iPhone product concept and continues through design phases to post product ramp. You will publish system level power estimates for various customer usage scenarios to drive battery life and thermal design discussions, own system-level power validation, analyze next-generation hardware with various cross-functional teams across Apple, perform hands-on lab investigations, and debug power-related issues to identify power-saving opportunities. Throughout the iPhone development cycle, you will work with the team to constantly improve our power modeling and validation methodologies. Position may require some international travel

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or equivalent 5+ years of industry experience Knowledge in system architecture power and performance metrics for computer (CPU, GPU, memory, radio) technologies, battery powered devices, and power electronics. Hands-on lab experience with multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, analog circuits, and prototype rework. Proficiency in automation, programming and scripting (e.g. Matlab or Python), with the ability to process and analyze large datasets for power model development.

Relevant experience in consumer hardware or electronics industries. Hardware / software power analysis and optimization experience. Familiarity with battery modeling and management concepts. Familiarity with feedback and control systems. Understanding of statistical tools for field data analysis. Familiarity with LLM based tools Executive-level presentation experience.

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.

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