Hardware System Validation Engineer

Join the system validation team at Apple's Hardware Engineering, where we validate system-level performance of Apple SoCs and other key modules (cameras, displays, and other state-of-the-art sensors) in a system environment that mirrors real product use. In this role, you will:

• Primarily validate Apple SoCs, while also running testing on other modules such as cameras, displays, and sensors that ship in Apple products
• Work closely with module designers and functional test writers to understand high-level architectures of each IP block within Apple SoCs or other modules, and define applicable validation plans
• Develop and execute these system tests, leveraging scripts and automation frameworks, on a large volume of engineering prototypes throughout the product life cycles
• Serve as the first line of debug when issues occur — triaging, isolating, and bucketizing failures
• Partner with domain experts to define DoEs (Design of Experiments), develop root-cause theories, and test possible workarounds
• Development of automated testing for power consumption data collection from our battery and power supply systems
• Creation of new test methodologies to expand test coverage to new modalities including optical / computer-vision based testing
• Optimize test and calibration flows for hardware sub-systems. Apply AI/ML techniques for test data mining, anomaly detection, and factory data analytics
• Travel internationally ~10% of the time