What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Systems Power Architect position at Apple?
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200582453
The Datacenter Systems Architecture team seeks an outstanding computer systems or technology architect to influence and drive new product designs in system power architecture and power management. This position is a multi-disciplinary and cross-functional lead engineering role encompassing all aspects of computer system design. The candidate will have the skills and experience to create system power architectures, surprise and delight our customers, and advance our products’ performance, size, power, thermal and cost goals.
Description
Provide architectural guidance and leadership to cross-functional engineering teams to establish new product definitions and requirements for system power architecture.
Lead the solutions for delivering system power architectures through the following:
Provide power delivery architecture guidance for Datacenter system applications
Possess subject matter expertise in power electronics and voltage regulators
Establish and drive workload power budgets at system and module levels
Perform and guide peak power measurements on system hardware to tune and refine existing power models, for datacenter workloads and applications.
Determine product system integration feasibility, via collaboration with mechanical, physical, thermal, and electrical engineering stakeholders.
Collaborate with performance architects to define, model and drive improvements in performance, power efficiency and cost.
Author system architecture specifications, block diagrams, and conduct review with the product teams.
Analyze, guide and support thermal management solutions and trade-offs
Be innovative and curious about emerging datacenter workloads and applications to drive the most effective system power architecture choices.
Review, challenge and influence people and processes
Lead system architecture and guide early design team activities
Define, develop and utilize tools, scripts, automation and methods of system analysis
Mentor junior engineers to best practices and data-driven processes
The role may require occasional domestic and international travel.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with at least 10 years of relevant industry experience
- Has core competence and subject matter expertise in power electronics for server system designs, grounded understanding of server and rack based designs.
- Possesses strong technical breadth across several computer subsystem technologies, e.g., CPU, GPU, TPU, storage, memory, power delivery, power management, networking, I/O, thermal management.
- Able to create, review and approve engineering requirement specification documents.
- Capable of modeling, characterizing power
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Possesses functional experience in defining power architecture solutions for complex server system designs deployed in datacenter applications. Demonstrated experience in modeling, power states characterization, and system power budget planning.
- Understands schematics, PCB layout & designs; has experience in bring-up, system debug and hands-on lab environments.
- Comprehends the roles of HW/FW/SW layers and how they interact in system design.
- Has strong analytic, verbal, written and communication skills. Able to summarize and effectively communicate technical issues and actions to key stakeholders and leadership teams
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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