Systems Debug Engineer, Data Center HWE

Apple Inc

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

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

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $214k
$131k $293k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $152,000–$213,375 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Apple Inc

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

Apple Inc currently has 3497 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $174,149–$277,600 across 2702 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Apple Inc

At a glance

TL;DR · Systems Debug Engineer, Data Center HWE

The Systems Debug Engineer – Data Center HWE joins a cross-functional lab team to provide hands-on support for data center development programs. This role involves building, maintaining, and debugging custom and OEM hardware while piloting proof-of-concept systems for at-scale deployment. Key responsibilities include triaging complex issues across design and production, performing failure analysis on SoCs and interconnects, and creating scripts to provision hardware and analyze large datasets. The position requires expertise in server architecture, power management, and memory subsystems. Candidates must utilize Python, Bash, and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and validation workflows. The work focuses on solving hardware and firmware problems, including performance degradation and connectivity failures, while ensuring downstream teams successfully integrate new platforms into the data center environment.

What you'll do

  • Analyze, reproduce, and root-cause complex hardware, firmware, and interconnect issues across the product lifecycle.
  • Build, maintain, and debug custom and OEM data center hardware for multiple development programs.
  • Pilot proof-of-concept hardware and software to prepare new platforms for at-scale data center deployment.
  • Develop scripts and tools to provision hardware, analyze large datasets, and run benchmarking frameworks.
  • Set up pre-production hardware, perform functional checks, and document results for early product development.
  • Create reports, dashboards, and presentations to communicate debug findings and status to leadership.
  • Test hardware under various environmental conditions to monitor power and temperature performance.

What we're looking for

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4–8 years of experience in systems engineering, hardware integration, or manufacturing engineering in a server or HPC environment.
  • Hands-on experience with SoC troubleshooting, board-level debug, failure analysis, and diagnostics for interconnects, memory, and power management.
  • Experience working in lab environments at scale.
  • Strong server architecture expertise, including component firmware upgrade processes.
  • Hardware, firmware, and OS-level debugging experience using SEL, kernel logs, system logs, and debug commands.
  • Working knowledge of provisioning and boot processes including UEFI, DHCP, DNS, and PXE/Netboot.
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash for automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and validation workflows.
  • MS degree with 3–5 years of relevant experience (preferred).
  • NPI experience with data center server hardware, custom ASICs/SoCs, or high-density server environments (preferred).
  • Experience troubleshooting hardware/firmware issues manifesting as software problems (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Lead Systems Debug Engineer, Data Center GPU

Amd

Austin, TX 110 days ago $163,200–$244,800
GPU Architecture SoC C/C++ Python Shell Perl PCIe HBM Firmware System Bring-up Validation Root-cause Analysis Oscilloscopes Git Agile Cloud Infrastructure Networking
8+ yrs exp

Senior Debug System Engineer, Datacenter

Nvidia

Santa Clara, CA 154 days ago $168,000–$258,750
Failure Analysis Firmware Software DFx Oscilloscopes Analyzers Board Development Characterization Manufacturing Electrical Engineering
8+ yrs exp

Lead Server Systems Debug Engineer

Amd

Austin, TX 45 days ago $163,200–$244,800
Server Systems Debug SoC C/C++ Python Perl Ruby System Architecture Firmware Logic Analyzers Oscilloscopes Validation Strategy Scripting Bring-up

Senior Debug System Engineer, Datacenter

Nvidia

Santa Clara, CA 125 days ago
Failure Analysis Hardware Software Firmware DFx Oscilloscopes Analyzers Board Development GPU Datacenter Validation Characterization Manufacturing
10+ yrs exp

Lead Systems Debug Engineer

Amd

Austin, TX +2 21 days ago $194,400–$291,600
Python C++ Perl Ruby PCIe CXL DDR Memory RAS MCA MCE JTAG SCAN Protocol Analyzers Post Silicon Validation X86 micro architecture Debug Scripts SOC Micro-Controller
10+ yrs exp