Touch HW EE Validation Engineer

Apple; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Touch HW EE Validation Engineer to join their innovative Touch Technology team. This role involves developing strategies and solutions to ensure high standards in touch performance and user experience. The engineer will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to address complex validation challenges and lead efforts in hardware and software infrastructure for testing solutions. Ideal candidates will have a strong electrical engineering background and proficiency in scripting languages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required.
• Strong electrical engineering background preferred.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like MATLAB/Python.

Responsibilities

• Define and architect solutions for complex validation problems.
• Develop and validate analytical models for touch sensors.
• Lead the development of validation methodologies for touch solutions.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Project Management

Communication

Data Visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Tableau

SpotFire

JMP

Job description

Touch HW EE Validation Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Mar 14, 2025

Role Number: 200594978

The Touch Technology team develops innovative touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple’s products, including iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, and more. The key goal of the team is to design the world’s best multi-touch user experience, bringing devices to life and enabling them to interact with users and their environment in unprecedented ways. Join us in developing solutions for next-generation touch technologies! The team fosters a collaborative and hands-on environment that promotes engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation. An engineer in this role develops strategies and solutions to ensure Apple products meet high standards in touch performance, hardware, and user experience.

Description

The engineer acting as a Direct Responsible Individual will be responsible for:

1. Defining and architecting solutions to solve complex open-ended test and validation problems.
2. Developing and validating analytical models to understand test system interactions with touch sensors.
3. Driving strategies with multi-disciplinary teams, including test, algorithm, firmware, software, mechanical design, and reliability engineering, to translate open-ended validation problems into actionable plans and deliverables.
4. Designing metrics and figures of merit to guide touch design and performance tracking.
5. Leading the development and execution of engineering validation and characterization methodologies for Apple’s touch solutions across different products.
6. Architecting and designing hardware and software infrastructure for innovative test solutions.
7. Managing vendors to implement validation tools, plans, and infrastructure.
8. Performing failure mode analysis using advanced tools to identify root causes.
9. Authoring reports and communications regarding key concepts, results, and checkpoints.

Business travel (up to 20% domestic and international) to support product development is required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong electrical engineering background in analog/mixed-signal testing methodologies or prior industry experience in validation/test efforts.
• Multidisciplinary understanding of EE, ME, and physics principles.
• High proficiency in scripting languages like MATLAB/Python for software and algorithm prototyping and analysis.
• Willingness to take on multiple roles and dive deep into issues, including breaking down existing algorithms.
• Experience in hardware prototyping, Design of Experiments (DoE), Failure Analysis (FA), and Corrective Actions (CA).
• Proficiency in data visualization and statistical analysis tools such as Tableau, SpotFire, JMP, Python, or MATLAB.
• Excellent project management, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with touch technology is a plus.

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