Apple

Microphone Module Engineer

Apple$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for consumer electronics.
  • Hands-on experience with MEMS technologies is essential.
  • Proficient in using ANSYS or COMSOL software.
  • Strong knowledge of multiphysics modeling across various domains.
  • Experience in characterizing and debugging MEMS transducers including sensors and actuators.
  • Familiarity with electrostatic and piezoelectric transducers.
  • Ability to create simplified models using tools like Spice and Matlab.

Responsibilities

  • Model and analyze new sensor and actuator technologies for Apple products.
  • Scope new MEMS technologies and devise proof-of-concept designs.
  • Communicate findings regularly to a multi-functional team.
  • Prepare status updates, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies for projects.
  • Collaborate with suppliers and subcontractors to drive technology development.
  • Diagnose and address engineering issues related to products.
  • Design experiments and analyze data to ensure manufacturability of designs.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative products and technologies at Apple.
  • Engage in creative problem-solving within a collaborative team environment.
  • International travel opportunities to engage with suppliers and stakeholders.
  • Access to professional development and advanced modeling tools.
Full Job Description
Description

Do you have an inventive design approach and enjoy the challenges of miniaturization? As a Microphone Module Engineer, you will be responsible for modeling and analyzing new sensor and actuator technologies to enable new acoustics features across Apple product lines. This will include scoping new MEMS technologies and devising proof-of-concept designs, models, and test-structures. You'll apply your expertise using analytical, lumped element, and finite element methods. You'll communicate your findings and takeaways regularly with a diverse multi-functional team working on acoustic modules. This includes regular presentations on status, risk, and mitigation strategies. Ultimately, your efforts will identify useful technologies to travel from the technology development phase to utilization in products.

In this role, you will regularly interact with suppliers and sub-contractors to drive technologies that enable new sensor and actuator functionalities, diagnosing engineering issues as you go, driving to definitive root cause. Your creativity and ability to think quickly and dynamically in order solve technical challenges will be key.

Minimum Qualifications

Proven experience in advanced Finite Element Analysis (FEA) within high-volume consumer electronic products and/or modules.

Direct experience with MEMS technologies is vital.

ANSYS or COMSOL experience required.

Deep understanding of multiphysics modeling, including linear and non-linear structural analysis, thermoviscous acoustics, electronics, RF, heat transfer, and magnetics, as applied to mobile devices.

Experience characterizing and de-bugging MEMS transducers (sensors or actuators such as IMUs, pressure sensors, microphones, micro-mirrors, etc).

Direct experience with electrostatic /piezoelectric transducers.

Experience developing simplified models, such as lumped element models, using tools such as Spice, Matlab, Verilog, etc. to develop and validate your design concepts.

Expertise designing experiments and analyzing data using tool such as JMP, Matlab, or various scripting approaches to enable analysis of the manufacturability of your designs.

Working knowledge of semiconductor and MEMS materials and packaging.

International travel (10-15%).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience modeling MEMS-package interactions.

Most of our engineers have advanced degrees Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or an equivalent field.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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