Apple

Touch Sensing Product Design Engineer

Apple$100K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Solid understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals
  • 3D CAD experience is required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to craft clear engineering documentation
  • Collaboration skills with diverse teams and external vendors
  • Bachelor's degree minimum
  • Preferred background in high volume consumer electronics or sensing experience

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end design, development, and validation of sensing technology
  • Generate design concepts within a multifunctional team
  • Identify design tradeoffs and risks to choose viable paths forward
  • Apply experimental designs to reduce design risk early
  • Run tolerance studies for manufacturing feasibility
  • Drive processes to meet Apple's high cosmetic standards
  • Support external manufacturing vendors with process development and root cause analysis

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on products that impact millions of users
  • Collaborative environment with a talented multifunctional team
  • Involves international travel (10%-20%) for vendor support
  • Engage in high-profile projects within a leading technology company
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
Full Job Description
Description

You will own the end-to-end design, development and validation of sensing technology into Apple's portfolio of products. You will work with a talented multifunctional team to generate design concepts, and as the mechanical expert you will be responsible for engineering analysis and documentation for your piece of the project:

- Identifying design tradeoffs and risks to choose viable paths forward.

- Applying good experiment design and the scientific method to reduce design risk early.

- Running tolerance studies to ensure designs are feasible over manufacturing tolerances.

- Driving processes to meet Apple's high cosmetic standards.

Experience with high volume mass production or consumer electronics are a plus. In the prototyping and validation phases, you will support external manufacturing vendors with process development and root cause analysis for issues found during testing. Support for our vendors includes international travel between 10% and 20%. At the end of the extraordinary team effort, your work will be in the hands of millions of people making a visible difference in their daily lives

Minimum Qualifications

Solid understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals including properties of materials, solid mechanics, beam statics, Newtonian physics, and thermodynamics.

3D CAD experience is required.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Able to craft clear engineering documentation.

Able to effectively collaborate with diverse team members and external vendors to achieve project goals.

Minimum requirement of a bachelors degree

Preferred Qualifications

High volume, consumer electronics or sensing experience is a plus.

Siemens NX CAD fluency

High volume / mass production development experience

FEA modeling experience with any major CAD software system

Hands on experience with 3D Printers, CNC Mills, Lathes and / or other hand fabrication methods

Experience in the areas of: GD&T, Tolerance Analysis, Statistical Analysis and Design of Experiments

BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.

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
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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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