System Power Engineer, CoreOS

Cupertino Until 9/22/2026 First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Are you passionate about working on products that enrich the lives of millions of people? Do you enjoy understanding how things work in breadth and depth, and how to make them even better? Are you excited to work on cutting-edge technologies and products? If so, we'd love to hear from you! In this role, you will constantly be challenged to learn about how Apple's latest features and technologies work and collaborate with teams to ensure they ship with extraordinary battery life and performance. You will work with teams to help them identify focus areas, run experiments, analyze data, and develop tools to help achieve efficiency while maintaining a great user experience!

Description

Work multi-functionally with architecture, hardware, and software teams to help deliver surprise and delight in our latest products while maintaining great battery life and energy efficiency. This role requires the technical depth and expertise to understand how things work from the user interface down to the state transitions of each hardware block. This insight is instrumental to design experiments, derive insights from lab and field data, and convey the customer impact to engineering teams with potential solutions for optimization. Strong problem solving skills and effective communication are critical for success in this role.

Minimum Qualifications

Strong understanding of hardware component and hardware/software interactions
Strong understanding of process/framework/kernel/firmware abstractions
Excellent debugging/triaging skills to solve impactful problems
Excellent spoken and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience developing scripts/tools to distill and visualize data
Ability to work independently and learn new technologies
Excellent prioritization skills and focus

About this role

Summary

Analyze hardware/system interactions to optimize battery life and performance.

Job title

System Power Engineer, CoreOS

Experience level

null

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Candidates in Cupertino with remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

hardware component understandinghardware/software interactionsdebuggingcommunication

Preferred skills

scriptingdata visualizationindependent learningprioritization

Specializations

hardware interactionsprocess frameworkkernelfirmwaredebugging
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

Remote City