Hardware Systems Workload and Characterization Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Hardware Systems Workload and Characterization Engineer (iPad)
• Focus: System-level workload development and automated hardware test infrastructure for power, performance, battery life, and thermal characterization

Description

This role develops, automates, and maintains system characterization workloads and the supporting hardware test infrastructure for next-generation iPad devices. You will work at the intersection of hardware, software, silicon, and thermal/power engineering to enable repeatable validation across the product lifecycle. The work emphasizes building software workloads, automating test systems, and deeply analyzing system power and thermal management.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and evolve workloads to characterize power, performance, battery life, and thermal behavior across the product lifecycle
• Track upcoming hardware and software features and translate them into representative, repeatable characterization workloads
• Drive workload discovery, quality assurance, and end-to-end test automation to improve coverage, reliability, and engineering efficiency
• Develop, execute, and characterize workloads and test methodologies to support international regulatory and energy compliance
• Deploy and maintain development boards and power-measurement hardware setups for the engineering team
• Maintain and expand automated rack-based stability and characterization test infrastructure, migrating manual/standalone testing into scalable automated environments
• Partner with cross-functional teams to tune system-level thermal and power management algorithms and power budgeting

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Hands-on experience with scripting and test automation (Python, shell scripting, or similar)
• Experience setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting development boards, lab test benches, or automated test racks
• Fundamental understanding of computer systems and hardware/software interactions (CPU/GPU behavior, system power, thermals)
• Strong organizational and communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across hardware, software, and QA teams

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and automate system workloads and power/thermal characterization infrastructure used to validate next-generation devices
• Cross-functional collaboration with architecture, software, QA, silicon engineering, and regulatory teams