Systems Architect at Apple in Cupertino, CA

Apple’s Ecosystem Products & Technologies team is looking for a highly skilled and motivated product-focused Systems Architect with a passion for creating great user experiences and high quality products. Join a collaborative development team that plays a pivotal role in the development of products that seamlessly integrate with Apple’s portfolio, encompassing Home, iPad, iPhone, Watch, Mac and Vision Pro. This ecosystem of products is unique for its tight integration between accessories and Apple devices that extends the Apple user experience.

We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic Systems Architect to lead and drive system technical designs and roadmaps. You will oversee and analyze key system architectural and implementation trade-offs, such as power and performance in a thermally constrained system, analyzing hardware & data flows, and driving requirements.

This role requires that you have strong communication skills, listening/understanding, synthesizing, presenting options & tradeoffs, all while being comfortable with working through ambiguities. In this position, you will:

*Work with multi-discipline teams to design and launch new accessories and features into the market
*Decompose user facing features, experiences, and functions into associated enabling technologies
*Lay out available architectural options, analyze engineering trade-offs, and articulate recommendations to meet product goals
*Work cross-functionally to understand existing portfolio of technologies, derive capabilities & cost functions, and construct an overall end-to-end product solution
*Define and author system level feature descriptions and detailed functional requirements
*Shepherd product features through idea/concept to execution
*Review, influence, and challenge architectural tradeoffs with data and innovative new ideas

Bachelor’s Degree in electrical or computer engineering or similar field
10 years interdisciplinary engineering expertise related to consumer electronics or embedded systems (firmware, hardware/electrical, and/or mechanical)
5 years developing consumer products from concept to production as a system integrator
Solid understanding of hardware/software interaction and mechanical constraints
Ability to develop and maintain product-specific system-level requirements/specifications for hardware, software/firmware, and mechanical subsystems
Excellent written and oral communication skills including producing concise and clear engineering specifications as well as presenting to engineering leadership
Ability to build relationships with cross-functional teams and exert effective influence

Master’s Degree in electrical or computer engineering or similar field
10 years product development experience in a matrix organization, preferably high volume consumer
3 years experience as a technical lead or engineering manager
History of shipping interoperability and ecosystem features
Proven expertise in SoC architecture, low-power design, HW/SW interfaces, bus protocols (USB, I2C, etc.), and wireless interfaces (Bluetooth/BLE, NFC, Wi-Fi, Thread)
Working knowledge of HW/SW interaction, operating systems, estimation of compute workload, thermal, and power controls in modern SoCs
Previous exposure to PCB technologies, signal integrity considerations, coex/desense mitigation
Ability to think strategically, while driving tactical details
Systems thinking mindset with attention to interface definitions and edge cases
Experience working with teams of diverse technical backgrounds and quickly seeking and integrating their knowledge