Apple

Systems Debug Engineer - Data Center HWE

Apple$120K — $145K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 4-8 years in systems engineering or hardware integration in servers or HPC
  • Hands-on experience with SoC troubleshooting and board-level debug
  • Experience working in large-scale lab environments
  • Strong expertise in server architecture and firmware upgrades
  • Hardware and OS-level debugging skills using logs and commands
  • Proficient in Python and Bash for automation tasks

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on support for data center development and lab programs
  • Triage, debug, and analyze failures in development hardware
  • Set up and test pre-production data center hardware
  • Maintain and debug custom and OEM hardware
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on hardware and software setup
  • Test hardware under varying environmental conditions
  • Deploy proof of concept hardware for large-scale use

Benefits

  • Join a dynamic team with opportunities for collaboration
  • Contribute to innovative product development in a cutting-edge environment
  • Engage in hands-on debugging and troubleshooting of systems
  • Be part of cross-disciplinary efforts that span multiple engineering domains
  • Work with advanced server and data center technologies
Full Job Description
As a Systems Debug Engineer, you will provide hands-on support for our data center development programs and labs. You'll work in a cross-functional lab that acts as the on-ramp for silicon validation, software, hardware test, and reliability teams to access new systems in development. Partnering with electrical engineering teams and other subject-matter experts, you will triage, debug, perform failure analysis, and manage the hardware deployed in these labs. You will be a crucial technical resource, leveraging your expertise in server platforms and electrical engineering to tackle complex problems. Join us and be a part of our dynamic team!

Description

You will support early product development life-cycle by setting up data center hardware, running tests on pre-production hardware and document results. Build, maintain, and debug both custom and OEM hardware to support multiple programs. Deploy proof of concept hardware, software setup, and/or piloting of new hardware for use at scale in the data center. This includes testing under various environmental conditions for power and temperature. You will collaborate cross functionally with multiple teams, including hardware development, validation, data center, logistics, software development, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

4-8 years in systems engineering, hardware integration, or manufacturing engineering in a server or HPC environment.

Hands-on experience with SoC troubleshooting, board-level debug, failure analysis and diagnostics, including low- and high-speed system interconnects, memory subsystem, power management, and distribution.

Experience working in lab environments at scale.

Strong server architecture expertise, including component firmware upgrade processes.

Hardware, firmware and OS-level debugging experience using SEL, kernel logs, system logs, and debug commands.

Working knowledge of provisioning and boot processes (UEFI, DHCP, DNS, PXE/Netboot).

Proficient in Python and Bash (or equivalent), with experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and validation workflows (e.g., with Ansible).

Preferred Qualifications

MS degree with 3-5 years of relevant experience.

NPI experience with data center server hardware, custom ASICs/SoCs, or high-density server environments.

Experience troubleshooting elusive issues that present as software problems but originate in server hardware or firmware, including debugging interactions between high-speed buses, firmware, and OS behavior.

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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