Touch Sensing Product Design Engineer

Socket.dev; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a mechanical engineer to own the end-to-end design, development and validation of sensing technology for its product portfolio. You will work with a multifunctional team to generate concepts and provide engineering analysis and documentation for your project.

Responsibilities include evaluating design tradeoffs, applying experimental design methods, and ensuring manufacturability within cosmetic standards. Travel to vendor sites internationally may be 10–20%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3D CAD experience required.
• Solid understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to collaborate with diverse team members and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, development and validation of sensing technology.
• Identify design tradeoffs and risks to choose viable paths forward.
• Run tolerance studies to ensure designs meet manufacturing tolerances.
• Support external vendors with process development and root cause analysis during testing.

Skills

Solid mechanics

Materials properties

Thermodynamics

3D CAD

Engineering documentation

Collaboration

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Siemens NX CAD

FEA

3D Printing

CNC milling

Job description

We live in a mobile and device driven world where knowledge of the physical world around us is needed. We rely on this knowledge to get around, to learn about our environment and to enable spectacular new features for custom applications. Apple is meeting those needs as robustly and as creatively as possible and is interested in people who want to help meet that commitment. The success we are striving for will be the result of very skilled people working in an environment which cultivates creativity, partnership, and thinking of old problems in new ways. If that sounds like the kind of environment that you find intriguing, then let's talk. These elements come together to make Apple an amazing environment for motivated people to do the greatest work of their lives.

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 and ability 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.