Summary
Posted: Feb 27, 2023
Role Number:200215272
Do you want to help build the next iPhone or iPad? The system integration team is looking for individuals with real passion for shipping outstanding products. As an iPhone/iPad Hardware Validation Lead, you will be an authority who is responsible for delivering electrical validation breakthroughs from first prototype through launch in a fast-paced environment. Using interpersonal and technical skills, you will operate seamlessly with the iPhone/iPad System Integration Team to yield the highest quality results. You are someone with strong electrical engineering fundamentals, hard-working, willing to be hands-on with debugging efforts, and able to work expertly with multiple engineering teams to close a list of critical tasks and improve our designs. In this role, you will have the opportunity to deep-dive into technical issues, develop and maintain validation automation code, and help mitigate project risks.
Key Qualifications
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and experience working on high-volume consumer electronics.
- Highly organized with willingness for project management and issue tracking
- Experience with high-speed and low-speed interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, USB, PCIe, MIPI) including protocol and electrical compliance
- Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up and bench measurements for signal and power integrity.
- Expertise with lab test set-up and equipment (e.g. high-speed oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power supplies, spectrum analyzers)
- Ability to root-cause issues and recommend design improvements.
- Familiarity with scripting languages and instrument automation (e.g. Python, LabView)
- Knowledge of power electronics, including DC-DC converters.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Desire for a fast-paced environment; calm under pressure.
Description
As Validation Leads, we love the impact we make on the products that reach our customers. Some of the things we do are: - Responsible for system-level validation focusing on system performance, margin, and coupling among different subsystems. - Communicate technical risks to the project team and to upper management. - Define large-scale test plans that rigorously validate each subsystem and uncover underlying problems. - Track and lead electrical validation schedules with focus on design achievements. - Get involved with hands-on debugging and prototyping of design experiments. - Innovate and implement creative validation process improvements, including automation development - Work with multi-functional development teams in the US and Asia in order to integrate their work into the project.
Education & Experience
Bachelor Degree in Engineering, EE/CE degree preferred
Additional Requirements
- Position will require some international travel.