Mac Systems Power Delivery Architect

**Weekly Hours:** 40

**Role Number:** 200668541-0836

**Summary**

The Mac System Power Delivery Architecture team has an outstanding opportunity for a power systems architect to influence and drive new product designs. This is a multidisciplinary, cross-functional lead engineering role encompassing all aspects of computer system design. You will leverage your skills and experience to create innovative power delivery system architectures, surprise and delight our customers, and advance our products' performance, size, power, thermal, and cost objectives.

**Description**

Provide architectural guidance and leadership to cross-functional engineering teams in establishing new product definitions and requirements, with a primary focus on Power Delivery across Mac computer systems. This role requires subject matter expertise in power electronics, PMICs, and other DC-DC voltage regulators.

As a Mac Systems Power Delivery Architect, you will drive innovative power architecture and technology concepts, lead system-level partitioning and tradeoff analyses, and define mixed-signal power ICs, from initial investigation and analysis through to successful product-level implementation.

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with at least 10 years of relevant industry experience.

+ Core competence and subject matter expertise in power electronics design and analysis for computing systems targeted for high-volume production.

+ Strong technical breadth across multiple computer or datacenter subsystem technologies, including CPU, GPU, storage, memory, power delivery, power management, networking, I/O, and thermal management.

+ Solid understanding of mixed-signal silicon processes, design methodologies, and tools.

+ Ability to create, review, and approve engineering requirement specification documents.

+ Strong analytical, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to effectively summarize and communicate complex technical issues and action items to key stakeholders and leadership teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Experience in mixed-signal silicon and/or PMIC design.

+ Comprehends the roles of hardware, firmware, and software layers and understands how they interact within computer system design.

+ Proficient in reading schematics and PCB layouts and designs, with hands-on experience in board bring-up, system debug, and lab environments.

+ Experienced in circuit simulations, including behavioral, mixed-signal AMS, analog SPICE, and digital simulations.

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