Touch HW EE Validation Engineer

Apple; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks an engineer to develop validation methodologies for touch technologies across multiple products. You will lead validation efforts, create analytical models, and work with test, firmware, software, and hardware teams to ensure performance and reliability.

The role requires strong skills in physics, analog circuits, and data analysis, with a bachelor’s degree as a minimum. Domestic/international travel may be involved.

Qualifications

• Experience owning validation/test efforts on analog, mixed signal or sensor products.
• Fundamental knowledge of physics, analog circuit and signals analysis, circuit design and statistics.
• Minimum requirement of a bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Defining and architecting solutions to solve complex open ended test and validation problems.
• Developing and proving analytical models to understand test system interaction with Touch sensors.
• Driving strategies with cross-functional teams to translate validation efforts into executable plans.

Skills

Validation ownership

Analog/mixed-signal

Sensor tech

Python

Matlab

Statistics

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Matlab

Python

Tableau

SpotFire

JMP

Job description

Summary

The Touch Technology team develops innovative Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple’s products, including the iPhones, iPads, AppleWatch, and more. The key goal of the team is to design the world’s best multi-touch user-experience. Bring devices to life and enable them to interact with users and the environment in ways never imagined before. Join us in developing solutions for next-gen touch technologies!The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation. An engineer in this role develops strategies and solutions that ensures that Apple products meet the exacting touch performance standards in terms of hardware and user experience.

Description

The role involves development and execution of validation and characterization methodologies for Apple’s touch solutions, from proof-of-concept to mass production.

Key Responsibilities

• Defining and architecting solutions to solve complex open ended test and validation problems
• Developing and proving analytical models to understand test system interaction with Touch sensors
• Driving strategies with multi-functional teams, including test, Algorithm, firmware, software, mechanical design and reliability Engineering to decode open ended test and validation problems into an executable plan and deliverable
• Designing metrics and figures-of-merit to guide touch design and performance tracking
• Leading the development and execution of engineering validation and characterization methodologies for Apple’s touch solutions across different products.
• Architecting and designing HW & SW infrastructure for innovative test solutions
• Managing vendors to implement validation tools, plans and infrastructure
• Performing failure mode analysis with advanced detailed analysis tools to drive root cause diagnosis
• Authoring reports and communications pertaining to key concepts, results and checkpoints
• Business travel (up to 10% domestic and international travel) to support product development is required

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience owning validation/test efforts on analog, mixed signal or sensor products
• Fundamental knowledge of physics, analog circuit and signals analysis, circuit design and statistics
• Minimum requirement of a bachelors degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with touch technology
• High proficiency in software and algorithm prototyping/analysis using scripting languages like Matlab/Python
• Willingness to wear multiple hats, go beyond normal Roles and Responsibilities to dive deep in to an issue including ability to breakdown an existing Algorithm to enhance understanding
• Experience in HW prototyping, Design of Experiments (DoE), FA/CA (Failure Analysis /Corrective Action)
• Proficient in data visualization and statistical analysis tools such as Tableau, SpotFire, JMP, Python or Matlab or similar
• Excellent project management skills, written/verbal communication skills and solid people skills
• MS / PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline