Power Delivery Engineer - iPhone

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The iPhone Hardware Engineering team has an extraordinary opportunity for a passionate electrical engineer for the position of Hardware Engineer - System Technologies. This position is a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional lead engineering role encompassing different aspects of power conversion system designs.

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Description

In this role, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with, and provide architectural guidance to cross-functional engineering teams in defining and establishing system power architecture requirements for new products.

Responsibilities

• Designing, analyzing and validating power delivery solutions, including modeling of DC-DC converters, passives, power distribution networks and their potential for EMI.
• Working with cross-functional stakeholders on Power Architecture, IP specs and performance, passives.
• Working with multi-functional teams and external vendors to define, develop and productize the future generations of power ICs.
• Providing design guideline and support to system architecture design, board layout, product bring up, debug, validation, and factory builds.
• Performing design feasibility study, design testing and verification, and system bring up.
• Developing and refining design methodologies to optimize system performance, minimize size, reduce costs, and minimize EMI.
• The role may occasionally involve up to 10% travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience, BS/MS in relevant field.
• Must have strong EE fundamentals and problems solving skills.
• Must have experience in power electronics related design and development, including DC-DC converters and LDOs, PMIC or PMU's.
• Knowledge of power, analog and integrated circuit design fundamentals, process development, and analytical methodology for high-quality designs.
• Experience in architecture design of complex power conversion systems or power management ICs.
• Strong laboratory board-level testing, debugging and validation experience with lab equipment, such as oscilloscopes, electronic loads, and signal generators.
• Ability to employ scientific and systematic methods to troubleshoot and drive resolutions of multi-disciplinary system issues.
• Experience in layout planning and routing strategies.
• Ability to relate electrical performance to physical layout and system level solutions, including passive components and controls.
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+years of experience. PhD a +, in relevant field.
• Experience in taking projects from the conceptual phase through product ramp-up and mass production.
• Knowledge and work experience of various integrated circuit process technologies, design flows, reliability, and other related topics.
• Experience performing or guiding complex power distribution networks (PDN) design for sophisticated power conversion systems. Experience with PMIC or PMU's.
• Knowledge and Hands-on experience in circuit and EM simulation tools, such as Cadence/Sigrity, ADS/Spice/Spectre, Ansys HFSS/Maxwell/SIWave, and CST.