About the Role

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?

This role is all about making systems that have never been made before. Working with cross-functional engineering teams to define precision actuators, build them, verify their performance, and integrate them into systems. This role requires an engineer who can coordinate effectively across organizations, some international. You will be expected to understand the key role these actuators play, and to own their end-to-end life cycle while balancing risk and schedule.

Responsibilities

• Work with actuator design team on system-level actuator requirements
• Work with actuator vendor to monitor yields and reliability at builds
• Work with actuator design team and assembly house to support assembly of actuator into module, along with calibration and programming of module
• Define and document module-level test plans
• Work with assembly house on to implement module-level test plan through test station design, bringup, and early build support
• Work with cross-functional team to integrate module into systems, including post-integration validation and testing
• Travel internationally for build support

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in EE or related field
• Experience with supporting factory builds
• Experience with test planning and documentation of electro-mechanical modules
• Experience with standard lab equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers)

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of post-undergraduate experience in electrical engineering
• Skilled with electro-mechanical control systems measurement and analysis
• Skilled with creating and using sophisticated test setups for validation of high performance VCM-based actuators
• Experience with statistical data analysis
• Familiarity with position sensing approaches
• Ability to develop firmware for actuator driver ICs
• Exposure to various system modeling and simulation tools, such as ANSYS, Verilog A/MS, Simulink, COMSOL
• Familiarity with systems that include sensitive analog/mixed-signal circuits, FPGAs, and embedded microcontrollers

Equal Opportunity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.