Senior Battery FEA Engineer — Power High-Performance Cells

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and services

Education expense reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple's Battery Engineering team in Cupertino seeks an experienced FEA Engineer to drive design, qualification, and manufacturing of battery systems powering Apple devices. Your models and simulations will inform reliability, safety, and performance across product lines.

Responsibilities include high‑fidelity FE analyses, validating predictions with experimental data, and enabling automated multi‑physics workflows. Proficiency with Abaqus and Python is required; PhD and 10+ years are a plus.

Qualifications

• MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or similar.
• Experience with commercial finite element analysis software such as Abaqus.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-fidelity finite element analyses to predict battery performance prior to physical prototyping.
• Deliver simulation insights that shape design decisions and qualification outcomes for shipping products.
• Validate model predictions against experimental data and iterate to improve model accuracy and reliability.
• Develop and implement advanced structural, mechanical, thermal, and electrochemical models for battery simulations.
• Capture design details, cell chemistry behavior, and load cases across scales.
• Build coupled multi-physics models representing complex interactions within battery systems.
• Design automated end-to-end workflows from geometry creation to validated results.
• Leverage automation, surrogate modeling, DOE, and HPC for rapid design exploration and optimization.
• Scale simulation capabilities to support multiple product programs.
• Experimental validation and material characterization.

Skills

Python programming

FEM experience

Education

MS in Mechanical Engineering

PhD (preferred)

Tools

Abaqus

LS-DYNA

ANSYS

COMSOL

Job description

Apple's Battery Engineering team in Cupertino seeks an experienced FEA Engineer to drive design, qualification, and manufacturing of battery systems powering Apple devices. Your models and simulations will inform reliability, safety, and performance across product lines.

Responsibilities include high‑fidelity FE analyses, validating predictions with experimental data, and enabling automated multi‑physics workflows. Proficiency with Abaqus and Python is required; PhD and 10+ years are a plus.