Hardware Reworks/Soldering Specialist, Platform Architecture

Santa Clara, California, United States
Hardware

Summary

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Role Number:200520744
Are you highly detailed and skilled at developing creative solutions? Do you enjoy building elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? In this role, you will work with a team that provides power and performance data on shipping SoC solutions. This work is a vital component of the quality and efficiency of Apple’s future products. Join this group, and you’ll have a direct impact on the technology that shapes Apple’s customer experiences. Together, our work will be the reason millions of customers feel they can trust their devices every single day. Apple’s Platform Architecture group is looking for a motivated technician with a strong background in reworks and instrumentation. Ideally, you are ambitious with initiative and passion for accurate data gathering and analysis. Additionally, you have experience in instrumenting platforms and SoCs for power and performance measurements and running experiments.

Key Qualifications

  • Ability to perform precision reworks to enable testing for fine-grained power data on commercial samples with excellent attention to detail
  • Expert background in soldering/de-soldering under a microscope, fine-pitch components, instrumenting resistors and inductors for power measurements
  • Experience gathering power data with a focus on accuracy
  • Experience with Metcal and JBC soldering stations
  • Experience with digital multimeter and bench power supplies

Description

You will perform power instrumentations, gathering performance and power data on shipping products and work with a team to communicate findings and inform further actions. This will require precise reworks on commercial samples and expert-level soldering experience, with familiarity in lab equipment i.e. microscope, soldering stations, etc., and understanding expected workload behavior as well as impacts of other system level effects (like thermals).

Education & Experience

4+ years minimum related experience required.

Additional Requirements

  • Familiarity with modern consumer electronic devices and SoCs
  • Familiarity with best practices for device instrumentation and micro-reworks
  • Good understanding of basic computer system architecture
  • Excellent attention to detail

Pay & Benefits