Hardware Systems Test Automation Engineer, Apple
iPhone
Personal technology company
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Personal technology company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering or Computer Science
- Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, Matlab, Labview, C/C++, etc.)
- Comfortable in a lab environment using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc
- Strong communication and people skills. Able to work with cross functional teams on a regular basis
- Position will require some international travel
Desirable
- Strong EE/CS fundamentals with relevant experience in consumer hardware or electronics industries
- Experience with lab equipment test set-up (e.g. digital oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power supply, DMM, etc.) and instrument automation (SCPI commands, py-visa)
- Solid understanding of design and validation requirements for common interfaces (e.g. I2C, SPI, I2S, etc.) and high-speed interfaces (e.g. USB, MIPI, PCIe, etc.)
- Proficient with analyzing, processing, and visualizing large data sets
- Understanding of mobile system architecture and design tradeoffs
- Web development framework (React, Django) and database server maintenance (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
- Experience with schematic/layout capture tools
What the job involves
- As the Automation Engineer, you will be directly responsible for building innovative software solutions to aid with system hardware validation, as well as optimizing internal processes to improve efficiency
- These include automating data collection from lab equipment and building infrastructure to handle large data sets for local and cloud-based servers
- Develop test scripts to control lab test equipment and post-process raw data sets using key electrical performance indicators Lead innovative solutions to minimize bulk data transfer and processing time
- Author reports and communications pertaining to key results and checkpoints
- Maintain user documentation and training content for code
- Participate in debug activities, including actively driving design of experiments (DOEs) Engage and collaborate with multi-functional development teams in the US and Asia in order to integrate their work into the project
- The system integration team is looking for individuals with real passion for shipping exceptional products
- You will work as part of a team that drives innovation in ensuring the highest design quality for future iPhone releases
- As an iPhone Hardware Validation Automation Engineer, you will be a leader who is responsible for the creation and management of various software-based solutions used in the execution of system hardware validation, including scripting and data-acquisition and analysis tools
- As part of the System Validation Engineering (SysVE) team, you will have the opportunity to dive into technical issues with creative debug solutions and architect validation infrastructure roadmaps impacting multi-disciplinary teams
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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