Apple

Systems Engineer - Apple Vision Pro

Apple$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MS in a relevant technical field (EE, physics, systems engineering, mechatronics, CS)
  • 6+ years of experience in a product-based role, focusing on system engineering
  • Hands-on experience defining system-level specifications for hardware and software
  • Proficient in analyzing system trade-offs such as performance, power, and cost
  • Experience designing specification trees and conducting error budget analyses
  • Skilled in system modeling and analysis using MATLAB or Python
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex technical topics to leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Define and propose hardware and software implementation strategies for user-facing features
  • Work cross-functionally to allocate budgets and make data-driven trade-offs
  • Collaborate with Product Design, Electrical Engineering, and other disciplines to deliver systems that meet user requirements
  • Conduct detailed error budget analyses to ensure optimal system performance
  • Lead the definition of comprehensive specification trees for projects
  • Manage the decomposition of complex architectures into manageable components
  • Validate design choices through modeling and simulation efforts.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with diverse technical teams
  • Opportunity to innovate in consumer technology products
  • Engagement in the full product lifecycle from conception to production
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology and immersive product experiences
  • Potential for career growth within a leading tech company.
Full Job Description
Description

In the Systems Engineer role, you will be directly responsible for all parts of a system or sub-system, figuring out how these components work together to deliver an amazing user experience within Apple Vision products. You will be involved in conceptualizing and proposing hardware and software implementation approaches for user-facing features, defining comprehensive specification trees, and performing detailed error budget analyses.

Your responsibilities will include working with various cross-functional partners to assign budgets and making data-driven trade-offs across design, process, and calibration aspects to deliver a system that meets all product use case requirements. This is an extremely cross-functional role where you will collaborate closely with experts from diverse domains including Product Design, Electrical Engineering (EE), System Architecture, Calibration, Algorithms, and Reliability to bring groundbreaking experiences to life.

Minimum Qualifications

MS in a relevant field (EE, physics, systems engineering, mechatronics, CS)

6+ years of work experience in a product-based company, focusing on system engineering or similar role

Hands-on experience in defining system-level specifications for complex hardware and software components

Strong system-level thinking with a demonstrated ability to decompose complex architectures and ambiguous problems in well-defined, manageable components, interfaces, and requirements

Proficiency in analyzing system trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, thermal, cost, form factor, manufacturability) to achieve optimal solutions based on product requirements

Experience in designing spec trees, performing spec decomposition, and conduct error budget analyses applying statistical methods and models

Proficiency in system modeling, simulation, and data analysis using tools such as MATLAB or Python to predict performance, validate design choices, and simplify complex system understanding.

Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present highly technical topics and deep dives to leadership teams.

Preferred Qualifications

PhD in a relevant field (EE, physics, systems engineering, mechatronics, CS)

8+ years of relevant work experience, with significant portion in consumer products or complex electro-optical systems development

Deep understanding of the interplay between various sub-systems (e.g., optics, displays, cameras, computer vision algorithms, sensors) and their collective impact on overall user experience and system performance in immersive products.

Experience with the full product development lifecycle, from initial concept and architecture through to mass production.

Demonstrated expertise in one or more relevant sub-system domains (e.g., advanced display technologies, optical systems, sensor integration, computer vision pipelines for interaction).

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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