Hardware Technologies PhD Internships

You will receive technical mentorship and guidance that allows you to learn new things every day, gain practical skills, build real world experience, develop a greater understanding of our industry, and form valuable connections. You will join an extraordinary team, including world-class engineers who are all passionate about applying groundbreaking technologies.

Interns collaborate with researchers, engineers, and program/project managers to tackle innovative challenges.

You will learn new technologies quickly and should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Together, you and your team will partner to design and implement an innovative solution for a problem that is meaningful.

If you have a strong technical foundation and can learn new technologies quickly then this could be the team for you!

Pursuing a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, or related field of study.
At the end of the internship, you must return to school to continue your education or the internship must be the last requirement for you to graduate.

Previous demonstrated internship or project work in computer architecture, VLSI, design, logic design, or circuit design
Understanding of formal methods or verification
Camera/touch/display engineering: optics, flat panel/HW, touch mechanical design; design and implement experiments validating new materials (optical, mechanical); optimization for performance and reliability
Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple functional teams across a variety of disciplines
Experience with C/C++, Verilog, VHDL, Python, Perl, Spice is beneficial
Experience with Timing, Synthesis, Ansys, COMSOL

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. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. 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 commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet?
 
As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unrivaled and rewarding opportunity to help craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple’s customers every single day.

Our Hardware Technology team is responsible for Apple’s breakthrough custom silicon and hardware technologies including battery, applications processors, storage controllers, sensors silicon, display silicon and other chipsets across Apple’s entire product line. In this internship, you will have the opportunity to work among the best engineers in the world on our Hardware Technology team.
 
Positions are open in but not limited to:  
 
Digital Design & Implementation  
Circuit Design 
Design Verification 
Functional Verification 
Formal Verification 
Low Power Design  
Power Management Systems 
Physical Design 
Post Silicon Validation 
Signal Integrity  
Power Integrity 
Packaging & Productization  
Performance & Functional Modeling  
Performance Architecture 
Computer Architecture 
Analog Design 
Mixed Signal Design  
RF Design 
Antenna Design 
Wireless Communications 
Battery, Camera and Display Engineering 
CAD 
Firmware 
Platform Architecture 
Sensing Power and Haptics 
Wireless Cellular 
GPU 
CPU 
SoC 
AMS

This posting is not for a specific job opening and by submitting your resume you are expressing interest in being contacted about this type of role at Apple in the future.

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.