Hardware System Validation Engineer

Summary

Join the system validation team at Apple's Hardware Engineering, where we validate system-level performance of Apple SoCs and other key modules (cameras, displays, and other state-of-the-art sensors) in a system environment that mirrors real product use.

Description

In this role, you will:

- Primarily validate Apple SoCs, while also running testing on other modules such as cameras, displays, and sensors that ship in Apple products

- Work closely with module designers and functional test writers to understand high-level architectures of each IP block within Apple SoCs or other modules, and define applicable validation plans

- Develop and execute these system tests, leveraging scripts and automation frameworks, on a large volume of engineering prototypes throughout the product life cycles

- Serve as the first line of debug when issues occur — triaging, isolating, and bucketizing failures

- Partner with domain experts to define DoEs (Design of Experiments), develop root-cause theories, and test possible workarounds

- Development of automated testing for power consumption data collection from our battery and power supply systems

- Creation of new test methodologies to expand test coverage to new modalities including optical / computer-vision based testing

- Optimize test and calibration flows for hardware sub-systems. Apply AI/ML techniques for test data mining, anomaly detection, and factory data analytics

- Travel internationally ~10% of the time

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or a related field
• 3+ years of experience with hardware/software architecture and interoperability of complex systems
• Scripting proficiency in Python; comfortable building and maintaining automation frameworks
• Experience in one of the following: hardware system design and integration, SoC design/integration, debug/testing, or validation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SoC bring up, familiar with computer architectures (cache, memory hierarchy, data pipelines) and logic design
• Experience with bringing-up and testing of camera, display or any other modules in consumer electronics
• Experience in silicon validation software engineering or related field
• Experience with embedded system debug
• Experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and thermal chambers
• Strong proficiency in Python and Lua; proficient in Shell scripting.
• Familiarity with industry standards (USB, PCIe, DDR, etc.)
• General software development experience (Python, C++, log review, code review)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills