Senior Systems Prototype Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Systems Prototype Engineer (Systems Prototyping Team)

Description

Apple is seeking a highly motivated Senior Systems Prototype Engineer to help bring new products to life. Within the Systems Prototyping Team, you will make new and modify existing hardware for testing, creating prototypes to test concepts as part of product development and definition.

Responsibilities

• Design and fabricate functional electrical prototypes, often involving mechanical or optical systems
• Modify existing hardware for testing and prototype new concepts
• Incubate new technologies and prototype implementation approaches to solve challenging engineering problems
• Collaborate with Mechanical, Electrical, and Systems engineers to support project development
• Work both independently and collaboratively
• Support prototype bring-up, debug, and validation
• Perform some domestic travel as required

Requirements

• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals
• 7+ years of hardware development engineering experience in a team environment
• Experience with circuit design, schematic capture, and PCB layout
• Experience in prototyping, bring-up, debug, and validation
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in electrical CAD tools (e.g., Altium Designer, Cadence Concept, Allegro)
• Flexible prototyping skills such as firmware, optics setup, mechanical design, and 3D printing
• Ability to bring up new hardware and prototypes with firmware and embedded software
• Ability to create scripts/software to model and test new devices in Matlab, Python, or C
• Experience working with mechanical design and software development teams
• Experience with high-speed and low-speed digital interfaces
• Strong verbal communication skills across organizations
• Excellent written skills for clear reporting of data analysis and conclusions