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Systems Debug Engineer - Data Center HWE

Apple Inc
  • Sunnyvale, CA
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    As a Systems Debug Engineer, you will provide hands-on support for our data center development programs and labs. You'll work in a cross-functional lab that acts as the on-ramp for silicon validation, software, hardware test, and reliability teams to access new systems in development. Partnering with electrical engineering teams and other subject-matter experts, you will triage, debug, perform failure analysis, and manage the hardware deployed in these labs. You will be a crucial technical resource, leveraging your expertise in server platforms and electrical engineering to tackle complex problems. Join us and be a part of our dynamic team! You will support early product development life-cycle by setting up data center hardware, running tests on pre-production hardware and document results. Build, maintain, and debug both custom and OEM hardware to support multiple programs. Deploy proof of concept hardware, software setup, and/or piloting of new hardware for use at scale in the data center. This includes testing under various environmental conditions for power and temperature. You will collaborate cross functionally with multiple teams, including hardware development, validation, data center, logistics, software development, etc.Handle data center escalations end-to-end-analyze, reproduce, and root-cause complex issues across design, prototyping, validation, and production (e.g., SoC, firmware, or interconnect issues manifesting as misconfiguration, performance degradation, or connectivity failures). Pilot proof-of-concept hardware and software, and prepare new platforms for at-scale deployment in the data center. Build scripts and tools to provision hardware, analyze large data sets and logs, and run benchmarking frameworks. Support early product development by setting up custom and OEM data center hardware, running functional checks, documenting results, creating triage runbooks, and enabling critical lab deployments across multiple programs. Ensure downstream teams successfully adopt and integrate new hardware platforms. Support physical and remote lab activities to enable new programs and cross-functional teams. Create reports, dashboards and presentations for high priority escalations. Includes presenting status, debug/failure analysis efforts, findings, and other information to leadership teams.BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 4-8 years 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, including low- and high-speed system interconnects, memory subsystem, power management, and distribution. 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 (UEFI, DHCP, DNS, PXE/Netboot). Proficient in Python and Bash (or equivalent), with experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and validation workflows (e.g., with Ansible).MS degree with 3-5 years of relevant experience. NPI experience with data center server hardware, custom ASICs/SoCs, or high-density server environments. Experience troubleshooting elusive issues that present as software problems but originate in server hardware or firmware, including debugging interactions between high-speed buses, firmware, and OS behavior.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSunnyvale, CA
    IndustryComputer/IT Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1976
    Websitehttps://www.apple.com/jobs

    About Company

    We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

    We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

    About Apple

    There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

    Skills

    • ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit)unmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Ansibleunmatched
    • Bash Scriptingunmatched
    • Benchmarkingunmatched
    • Bootingunmatched
    • Computer Firmwareunmatched
    • Configuration Managementunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)unmatched
    • DNS (Domain Name System)unmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Setsunmatched
    • Debugging Skillsunmatched
    • Distribution Managementunmatched
    • Documentationunmatched
    • Electrical Engineeringunmatched
    • Failure Analysisunmatched
    • Hardware Administrationunmatched
    • Hardware Developmentunmatched
    • Hardware Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Hardware Upgradesunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Kernel Programmingunmatched
    • Laboratoryunmatched
    • Logisticsunmatched
    • Manufacturing Engineeringunmatched
    • Memory Subsystemunmatched
    • Network Operations Centerunmatched
    • OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
    • Operating Systemsunmatched
    • Power Managementunmatched
    • Product Developmentunmatched
    • Product Lifecycleunmatched
    • Product Supportunmatched
    • Product/Service Launchunmatched
    • Proof of Conceptunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • Reliability Testingunmatched
    • Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
    • Reporting Skillsunmatched
    • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
    • Server Architectureunmatched
    • Server Hardwareunmatched
    • Software Administrationunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Testingunmatched
    • System-on-a-Chip (SoC)unmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched

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