Platform System Engineer

Summary
Are you passionate about working on products that enrich the lives of millions of people? Do you enjoy understanding how things work in breadth and depth, and how to make them even better? Are you excited to work on cutting-edge technologies and products? If so, we’d love to hear from you! In this role, you will constantly be challenged to learn about how Apple’s latest features and technologies work and collaborate with teams to enable this exceptional technology across the Software/Hardware/Silicon organizations. We work with teams to help them identify focus areas, run experiments, analyze data, and develop tools to help achieve efficiency while maintaining a great user experience.

Description
Work cross-functionally with silicon, hardware, and software teams to help deliver surprise and delight in our latest products while enabling system development and stability. This role requires the technical depth and expertise to understand how things work from the user interface down to the state transitions of each hardware block. This insight is instrumental to drive hardware build readiness, system stability in the pre-silicon and NPI phase, and convey the overall system stability impact to engineering teams with potential solutions for optimization. Strong problem-solving skills and effective communication are critical for success in this role.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will constantly be challenged to learn about how Apple’s latest features and technologies work and collaborate with teams to enable this exceptional technology across the Software/Hardware/Silicon organizations. We work with teams to help them identify focus areas, run experiments, analyze data, and develop tools to help achieve efficiency while maintaining a great user experience.
• Description:
• Work cross-functionally with silicon, hardware, and software teams to help deliver surprise and delight in our latest products while enabling system development and stability. This role requires the technical depth and expertise to understand how things work from the user interface down to the state transitions of each hardware block.
• This insight is instrumental to drive hardware build readiness, system stability in the pre-silicon and NPI phase, and convey the overall system stability impact to engineering teams with potential solutions for optimization.
  
  

• Strong problem-solving skills and effective communication are critical for success in this role.
• Strong understanding of hardware components and hardware/software interactions
• Excellent debugging/triaging skills to solve challenging problems
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Excellent prioritization skills and focus
• Experience developing scripts/tools to distill and visualize data is a plus
  
  

• 5+ years of related experience in System Integration/QA/Debug role
• Experience in pre-silicon simulation/emulation
• Proficient in source code tracking software such as git to manage and integrate changes to large code bases