Apple

Sensing FEA Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field.
  • Experience with FEA software like Abaqus, ANSYS, or COMSOL.
  • Strong understanding of solid mechanics principles.
  • M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline preferred.
  • Proficient in scripting languages such as Matlab or Python.
  • Familiarity with GD&T fundamentals.

Responsibilities

  • Utilize Finite Element Analysis to solve engineering challenges.
  • Perform simulations to assess product performance and reliability.
  • Build FEA models and validate their accuracy.
  • Provide critical design inputs based on FEA results.
  • Collaborate with product design partners to ensure design requirements are met.
  • Influence design decisions through simulation insights.
  • Accelerate technology development in sensor applications.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence the design of innovative technologies.
  • Work in a technically challenging and impactful role.
  • Collaborative environment with engineering and design teams.
  • Exposure to high volume consumer electronics and sensor tech.
  • Access to advanced tools and methodologies in FEA and simulation.
Full Job Description
Description

You will utilize your expertise in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to solve engineering problems and discover creative solutions in order to enable robust and reliable sensor technologies. You will perform simulations that will be used to assess performance, design sensitivity, root-cause failure, reliability and much more. As an FEA engineer you will help address engineering challenges with a problem-solving, design-driven mindset to accelerate technology development and deliver world class products. This includes building FEA models, performing model validation and using FEA to provide critical design inputs to ensure performance and reliability goals are met. Simulation is a critical part of the design process and you will be working closely with product design partners, providing critical insights from simulation to ensure designs meet requirements. This position offers a technically challenging and rewarding opportunity to influence design and create real impact on our sensing technology portfolio.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum requirement of a bachelors degree

Experience with Abaqus, ANSYS, COMSOL, or other FEA tools

Strong engineering fundamentals in solid mechanics

Preferred Qualifications

M.S. degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Structural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field

In-depth knowledge of FEA theory, implementation and numerical methods

Experience solving non-linear solid mechanics problems (materials, contact, geometric)

Experience in FEA applied to high volume consumer electronic products and sensor technologies

Experience in additional analysis/simulation areas (CFD, acoustics, fatigue, and biomechanics) and multi-physics simulations

Applied knowledge/experience with material testing & material model calibration

Modeling nonlinear materials such as soft adhesives, elastomers, and polymers

Proficient in Matlab, Python or other scripting language and experience with using AI tools

Knowledge of GD&T fundamentals

Experience in data and statistical analysis (Monte Carlo, DOE, statistical process control)

Team-oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to interact and collaborate with management, team members and external vendors to achieve project goals, and give positively to the engineering community

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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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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