System Power Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$150,400–$277,600 / yr
Posted
16 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $214k
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This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$231,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $197k for comparable roles.

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · System Power Engineer

As a System Power Engineer, CoreOS, you will join the team to champion power optimization across the ecosystem by influencing technical decisions and driving battery-conscious design principles. You will work multi-functionally with architecture, hardware, and software teams to ensure products achieve ambitious power targets while maintaining high performance. Your daily responsibilities include designing experiments, analyzing lab and field data, developing tools to visualize information, and identifying critical battery life opportunities for unreleased features through advanced power modeling. To succeed, you must possess a deep understanding of hardware components, hardware/software interactions, and process, framework, kernel, and firmware abstractions. You will use these skills to solve complex problems, eliminate inefficiencies, and provide actionable optimization strategies throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring that every feature delivers an optimal user experience through superior energy efficiency.

What you'll do

  • Champion power optimization across the ecosystem by influencing technical decisions and driving battery-conscious design principles.
  • Drive breakthrough battery life improvements through well-crafted experiments and quantitative data analysis.
  • Deliver actionable optimization strategies to ensure features and products meet ambitious power targets.
  • Shape product development throughout the lifecycle to ensure power-conscious implementation from concept to launch.
  • Identify critical battery life opportunities for unreleased features using advanced power modeling.
  • Lead cross-functional investigations to identify and eliminate power inefficiencies in hardware and software.
  • Develop tools and scripts to distill and visualize data for performance analysis.
  • Analyze lab and field data to convey customer impact and technical solutions to engineering teams.

What we're looking for

  • Strong understanding of hardware components and hardware/software interactions.
  • Strong understanding of process, framework, kernel, and firmware abstractions.
  • Excellent debugging and triaging skills to solve impactful problems.
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
  • Experience developing scripts or tools to distill and visualize data (preferred).
  • Ability to work independently and learn new technologies (preferred).
  • Excellent prioritization skills and focus (preferred).

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