
Hardware Development
San Diego, CAFull-time$175–263K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Apple seeks a hardware development professional in San Diego to design and validate sensing and touch-module technologies. The role collaborates across engineering teams, performs circuit and board design, system integration, testing, and failure analysis, and develops Python and MATLAB tools for post-processing. It also supports technology validation and preparation of designs for mass production. International travel of 10% is required.
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Full job description
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200691711-3543
Summary
Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
Description
APPLE INC has the following available in San Diego, California. Engage in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Mechanical Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Display Engineering and Process Engineering; Lead cross-functional integration discussions and EE coexistence assessments; Perform schematic capture of board, module, and flex design; ASIC application designing, system-level bringing up, and integration; Module testing and feature validation across all supply chain nodes; Analyze failure mode, diagnosing root cause, and system-level problem solving; Prepare designs for mass production through failure mode analysis, root-cause diagnosis, and performance optimization iterations; Engage in discussions with other team members to design and validate sensing technologies for future programs, including preparing factory plans for validation of such technologies; Create software infrastructure tools using Python and MATLAB to improve the performance of every team member when performing daily post processing tasks; Contribute to discussion on improving existing technologies and sub modules of the touch module for future projects as well as current ones; Review build data for certain functionalities of the touch module, in particular technologies relevant to the scan plan (scan of the touch system to detect user interface with the device); Failure analyzing and generating/proposing corrective action for any flagged issue corresponding to the scan plan modules and being responsible for helping other team members on more pressing issues that might appear during the testing of our modules; Perform regular validation and testing on the lab of existing and future programs, including the operation of lab equipment to extract data for failure analysis and later post processing for finding root causes; and Perform review of schematic and board layer design for future projects and engaging in any discussions to improve such designs. International Travel Required 10%. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,000 - $263,300/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Minimum Qualifications
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Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering in Internet of Things, Industrial Engineering, or related field
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Experience and/or education must include:
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Analog and mixed-signal circuit design
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Experience in system level engineering concepts such as digital signal processing, noise, interference & electromagnetic analysis
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Experience in mixed-signal PCB design (schematic capture, PCB layout & component selection)
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Expertise in scientific modeling and analysis tools such as Matlab, Python or equivalent
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Expertise in simulation tools such as Cadence, HSpice or equivalent
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Performing failure analysis and hardware debug to solve complex technical issues that arise during hardware development
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Generating functional and test specification documents
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Experience using lab equipment such as high speed oscilloscopes, DMM's, TDM, or logic analyzer to take accurate and high-quality measurements
Preferred Qualifications
- N/A
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,162 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$175–263K/yr
- California median$146–215K/yr971 salary ranges
- US median$133–207K/yr2,367 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $219K, is 23% above the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the top quarter of Hardware Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,269 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 3,162 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (2,637 postings).
- Education
- 1,744 of the 3,162 open Hardware Engineer jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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