About the Role

Apple builds consumer electronics that have touched millions and changed the way people get along with electronic devices around the world. The Product Integrity Group plays a key role in keeping up the standards. Through work with the team you will have the outstanding opportunity to impact products all across Apple, because here new insights have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.

We are looking for an engineer to design, develop and deploy calibration and test instrumentation systems for Apple's outstanding products. This engineer will work closely with multi-functional groups (Design, ME, EE, SW, Ops, etc.) throughout the New Product Introduction (NPI) phase to ensure the success of current and future Apple products.

Description

You will develop the design specification, bring up, validation and deployment of automated instrumentation to calibrate and test Apple's products through NPI and mass production.

Responsibilities

• Architect instrumentation systems (including HW specification) and maintain those systems through production
• Work with our mechanical engineering team to specify and validate the required mechanical fixtures & automation systems
• Develop, debug, and optimize automation software
• Run simulations/DOEs to make data driven decisions & addressing management
• Analyze large amounts of data generated from your instrument systems and embrace data-driven approaches to solving engineering challenges
• Perform failure mode root cause analysis and resolution, debugging from the system level down to the component level
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams like module design, system EE, product design, firmware, operations, and logistics teams
• Frequent interactions with contract manufacturers/vendors; developing SOPs, debug instructions, and documentation

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in Math/CS/Robotics/Mechatronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering
• 3+ years professional experience (or equivalent) in design, development, debug, validation and working with electro-mechanical/Robotic systems
• Solid understanding of consumer electronics modules like transducers/sensors (light/force/pressure/touch/motion)
• Basic understanding of hardware concepts and EE fundamentals (i.e. HW architecture, Control System, Signal processing etc.)
• Programming skills in one or more of the following: C/C++/Objective-C, Python, Lua

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate studies in aforementioned subject areas
• Professional experience in design, development, debug, validation and working with electro-mechanical systems
• Understanding of test principles, GRR, experience with test automation and optimization
• Experience analyzing and processing large data sets
• Domestic and international travel may be required (up to 10%)
• Experience and strong background in control system and signal processing
• Experience in high volume consumer electronics manufacturing
• Experience with data processing tools - plotting, processing and mining data
• Experience or deep understanding of AI/ML modeling
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and ability to handle many priorities across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated, self-reliant, and confident in working independently in an exciting, factory environment

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.