Power Delivery Engineer - iPhone
About the job
- At least 3 years of experience; a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and problem-solving skills.
- Experience designing and developing power electronics, including DC-DC converters, low-dropout regulators, power management integrated circuits, or power management units.
- Knowledge of power, analog, and integrated-circuit design fundamentals, process development, and analytical methodologies for high-quality designs.
- Experience architecting complex power conversion systems or power management integrated circuits.
- Strong laboratory, board-level testing, debugging, and validation experience using equipment such as oscilloscopes, electronic loads, and signal generators.
- Ability to use scientific and systematic methods to troubleshoot and resolve multidisciplinary system issues.
- Experience with layout planning and routing strategies.
- Ability to relate electrical performance to physical layout and system-level solutions, including passive components and controls.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally.
- Collaborate with and provide architectural guidance to cross-functional engineering teams to define and establish system power architecture requirements for new products.
- Design, analyze, and validate power delivery solutions, including modeling DC-DC converters, passive components, and power distribution networks and assessing their potential for electromagnetic interference.
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders on power architecture, intellectual-property specifications and performance, and passive components.
- Work with multifunctional teams and external vendors to define, develop, and productize future generations of power integrated circuits.
- Provide design guidelines and support for system architecture design, board layout, product bring-up, debugging, validation, and factory builds.
- Perform design feasibility studies, design testing and verification, and system bring-up.
- Develop and refine design methodologies to optimize system performance, minimize size and cost, and minimize electromagnetic interference.
- At least 7 years of experience; a PhD in a relevant field.
- Experience taking projects from the conceptual phase through product ramp-up and mass production.
- Knowledge and work experience with integrated-circuit process technologies, design flows, reliability, and related topics.
- Experience performing or guiding complex power distribution network design for sophisticated power conversion systems, including experience with power management integrated circuits or power management units.
- Knowledge of and hands-on experience with circuit and electromagnetic simulation tools, including Cadence/Sigrity, ADS/Spice/Spectre, Ansys HFSS/Maxwell/SIWave, and CST.
About the company
Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, from iPhone smartphones and Mac computers to tablets and wearable devices. Its operating systems manage apps and built-in functions for communication and work, while iCloud stores files and synchronizes data across devices. Customers buy additional digital services through subscriptions such as Apple Music and Apple TV, and developers distribute software through the App Store. Apple earns money from hardware sales, subscriptions and digital transactions, selling directly to customers and through retailers and mobile carriers around the world. It was founded in 1976 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cupertino, California
Founded
1976
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Business demand is growing: Apple reported $109.4 billion revenue in the June 2026 quarter, up 16% year over year.
- Eligible US employees get learning support: Apple reimburses career-related tuition and runs Apple University classes.
- Services earn richer margins: Apple reported 75.6% services gross margin in the June 2026 quarter, versus 40.1% for products.
What critics are saying
- Assembly depends on Asian partners: Apple outsources substantially all final hardware assembly, reducing direct control over production.
- iPhone concentrates demand risk: the product generated 49.6% of Apple revenue in the June 2026 quarter.
- Student support shifts take evenings: Apple College Advisors typically work three evening shifts and one weekend shift weekly.
What makes Apple unique
- Its chips link hardware and software: Apple designs M-series processors and developer frameworks tuned to their unified memory.
- Stores double as service hubs: Apple combines device sales, Genius Bar technical help and in-person learning sessions.
- It owns a spatial operating system: Apple Vision Pro runs visionOS, controlled through eyes, hands and voice.
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