Power Management Architect

Company: Apple Inc.
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: March 13, 2023

Job Description:

Seeking a talented Electrical or Computer engineer for the Macintosh System Architecture team.This position is a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional lead engineer. This person will be integral to defining and influencing new products and their hardware and software design. This person will develop and drive cross-functional teams at the system architecture level to optimize system power consumption and enable Apple to build products that excel in power efficiency as well as performance. This position requires strong analytical, system modeling, and communication skills. Key Qualifications

• Experience in Control Loop Design in power management for mobile and desktop computer architectures
• Must have strong EE fundamentals; demonstrated design, debug, test plan creation & characterization experience
• Ability to create, review, approve engineering requirement specification documents
• Experience with chip & system level power saving features
• Ability to understand how software interacts with HW in implementing power management features
• Understand schematics and PCB designs and use them to bring-up, probe, and debug boards
• Experience in working hands-on in lab environment
• Ability to summarize and effectively communicate technical issues and actions to key stakeholders and leadership teams. Description Provide architectural guidance and leadership to cross-functional engineering teams to establish new product definition and requirements on power management features.-Influence system design behaviors and states-Negotiate development goals among a broad group of architects and system engineers, technical leads, HW & SW engineering managers, and external vendors-Facilitate, organize, rally resources and experts as neededProvide System Control guidance to achieve great user experience in battery life and system performance.-Establish and drive workload power budgets at system and module levels-Specify, negotiate, and document system power management & user level behaviors-Define system telemetry needs; collect/analyze/ debug subsystem power. Navigate and utilize schematics, BOMs, technical documentation-Perform and guide power measurements on device hardware to help validate power models-Analyze large complex data sets, track issues, and summarize conclusionsReview, challenge, & influence people and process.-Define, develop, and utilize tools, scripts, automation, and methods of system analysis-Mentor junior engineer for best practices in systems development-Provide guidance and enthusiasm to negotiate development process & capabilities-Generate and present material for internal review to upper management, key stakeholders, and technical decision makersPreferred Tools-Matlab, R, JMP or other data analytic / statistic / simulation tools-Scripting tools (e.g., Python, PERL, C, Excel Macros, Excel VBA)-Productivity (e.g., Keynote, Numbers, Pages; Powerpoint, Excel, Word; Omnigraffle)This role may require occasional domestic and international travel. Education & Experience BS EE, with 10 years of relevant industry experience.

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