Summary
Are you highly detailed and skilled at developing creative solutions? Are you obsessed with understanding how things work, function and fit together at the component and system level? Do you love focusing on the smallest details and applying this knowledge to much larger product level decisions to inform roadmap? In this role you will work with a team to understand highly complex systems and their impact on Power, Performance, and SoC design/integration to inform future direction. This work is a vital component of the quality and efficiency of Apple's future products. Join this group, and you'll have a direct impact on the technology that shapes Apple's customer experiences! Together, our work will be the reason millions of customers feel they can trust their devices every single day and directly impact the success of future products.

Key Qualifications
Need to be familiar with aspects of SoC implementation/design including floorplan layout, knowledge of current industry IP blocks and I/O integration.
Good understanding of PCB design, electrical circuits and component layout.
Strong fundamentals in mechanics and consumer electronics system level architectures
Strong experience parsing CTs - able to quickly understand and describe a system from SoC - end product.
Ability to identify and build relationships with key stakeholders to deliver analysis based solutions and proposals, on occasion orthogonal to established norms.

Description
Apple's Platform Architecture group is looking for a motivated, highly detail oriented Engineer with robust engineering fundamentals in mechanics, material science, heat transfer, mechanism design and SoC integration into a larger system. The team member should have excellent cross functional communication skills and a genuine passion for consumer electronics.

Education & Experience
BS degree and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.

Additional Requirements

• Passion for the consumer electronics industry, desire to research and keep up with leading edge technologies and how they function.
• Hands-on detailed product design or failure analysis experience in consumer electronics products are a plus.
• Familiarity with SoC marketplace, including market players.
• Basic shell / command line scripting experience
• Need to be familiar with aspects of ASIC integration including floorplan, knowledge of current industry IP blocks and I/O integration.
• Good understanding of PCB design, electrical circuits and component layout.

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