Hardware Systems Engineer - EMI Technology

Hardware Systems Engineer - EMI Technology

San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Hardware

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We have an opportunity for a passionate and results-driven Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Engineer to join our iPhone Hardware Engineering - System Technology team and help push the boundaries of what iPhone can do. In this highly collaborative role, you will partner with System Electrical Engineering (EE), Product Design (PD), and module teams, including camera, display, audio, and sensors, to design, model, simulate, and verify EMI coexistence across iPhone's subsystems.

Our team is creative and passionate about what we do and the products we make. Come join us!

In this role, you will identify, analyze, and mitigate EMI between subsystems to ensure co-existence. You will characterize and debug system-level EMI coexistence and RFI desense issues, leveraging both 3D EM and circuit simulations - spanning frequency and time domains alongside hands-on hardware validation using tools such as near-field scanners, spectrum analyzers, and VNAs. You will model the various subsystems on the system to assess their EMI impact, while developing design guidelines that inform board layout, system architecture, and product bring-up.

Working across multi-functional teams, you will define EM performance requirements and continuously improve design methodologies to ensure robust subsystem coexistence within the system.

• Providing design guidelines and support to system architecture design, board layout, product bring up, debug, validation, and factory builds.
• Developing and improving design methodologies to achieve minimal EMI
• Characterizing and debugging results-oriented system level co-existence/RFI desense issues
• Simulating and analyzing system high-speed circuits for signal integrity and their potential for EMI
• Performing design feasibility study, design testing and verification, and system bring up.
• Performing 3D-EM and circuit modeling and simulations in the frequency and time domains.
• Designing and analyzing power delivery networks including modeling of dc-dc converters, and their potential for EMI
• Working with multi-functional teams to define design requirements for improved EM performance

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in EE or related field and minimum 5 years of industry experience
• Strong experience in 3D EM simulations for debugging and mitigating complex EM coexistence issues
• Hands-on experience in EM and circuit simulation tools:
  Ansys HFSS/Maxwell/SIWave, CST, ADS/Spice/Spectre, Cadence/Sigrity
• Strong academic background in EM theory and coupling mechanisms is a must

• PhD EE
• Hands-on experience in hardware board-level testing, validation, and with lab equipment (near field scanning, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, scopes)
  Knowledge of Power and Signal integrity
• Knowledge of switching DC-DC converters
• Ability to relate electrical performance to physical layout
• Excellent collaborative and communication skills

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $184,700 and $324,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.

Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

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