Battery Architect
Summary
Apple's BMS architecture team in San Diego is hiring a Battery Architect to develop future battery management system technologies, translating product needs into requirements across BMS hardware, firmware, and algorithms for all battery-based Apple products. The role demands experience in battery/systems architecture, embedded controllers, and cross-functional leadership.
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Are you interested to work on the forefront of Battery Management Systems? In this role you will develop future BMS technologies with a hardworking team of engineers in a highly reciprocal and multi-functional environment. The BMS team spans across all battery-based Apple products and is looking for engineers with multi-disciplinary technology experience with strong leadership skills.
The architecture group within the Battery Management System (BMS) organization is a critical and collaborative team that bridges across all cross functional teams to understand product needs to translate them into requirements for the BMS domain teams. The engagement spans across short term objectives for upcoming products as well as collaborating with the entire team to establish and pursue the long term BMS roadmap covering hardware, firmware, and algorithms.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree.
- Experience in a battery, systems, or related architecture role.
- Experience developing battery management solutions using embedded controllers.
Preferred Qualifications
- MS degree and 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience with customer interfacing engagement to understand their system, requirements, and problems to define a system level solution.
- Experience in collaborative environments with multiple internal and external technology partners.
- Experienced developing engineering requirement specification for BMS systems and the functional decomposition into BMS HW, FW, SW, IC solutions.
- Experienced working with silicon teams to drive BMS hardware requirements/specifications, architecture/feature trade-offs and design compliance.
- Familiar with battery management algorithms and their interaction with HW, FW, application platform systems, and manufacturing practices.
- Familiarity with detailed workings of different battery chemistries and their limitations.