About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming

extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring

passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could

accomplish! The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all

Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our

products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the

world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking

Apple product! We are looking for a smart, self-driven engineer who loves to

test their skills against new and diverse challenges. We have a role that will

push you to do your best, to be your most creative and to invent new technology

that affects billions of users. This is your opportunity to join the elite team

responsible for crafting and building the foundation of the technology that

fuels Apple's devices.

DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a Power Control Systems Engineer to help design and evolve new

power control systems across multiple product features. You will be responsible

for evolving the power control architecture deployed across Apple products to

extend battery life and improve user experience while meeting device power and

thermal constraints across multiple timescales. This work involves collecting

and analyzing performance/power data from real-world workloads, applying and

extending control theory and estimation techniques — including multi-timescale

constraint handling — to novel system problems, driving data-driven and

predictive approaches to power allocation, cooperating with systems and software

teams to characterize and analyze power/performance profiles, and evaluating

power control algorithms based on the resulting insights.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

BS degree Experience with one or more of the following programing languages:

MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++, Bash, or Python Experience with control system design in

one or more of the following areas: Classical Control Theory, Modern Control

Theory, System Identification, Estimation Theory, Signal Processing, or

multi-timescale constraint handling

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

MS or PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent

10+ years of relevant industry experience Experience implementing control

systems in embedded microcontroller environments Experience applying data-driven

or machine-learning approaches to power allocation, predictive analytics, or

constraint prediction Experience with multi-timescale or hierarchical

constraint-handling techniques in real-time control systems Innovative and

critical system-level thinker with control system design and debug skills Desire

to bring data-driven decision-making and analytics to improve our products

Professional and collaborative with interpersonal communication skills

Which skills does this role require?

MatlabSimulinkCC++BashPythonClassical Control TheoryModern Control TheorySystem IdentificationEstimation TheorySignal ProcessingMulti-timescale constraint handlingEmbedded systemsMachine learningPower Control SystemsPlatform ArchitectureApple HardwareBattery LifeThermal ConstraintsControl TheoryMachine LearningMulti-timescale Constraint HandlingPerformance ProfilingAlgorithm DevelopmentHardware EngineeringSystem-level ThinkingDebugging

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