Touch HW EE Validation Engineer

The Touch Technology team develops innovative Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apples products including the iPhones iPads AppleWatch and more. The key goal of the team is to design the worlds 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.

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

Defining and architecting solutions to solve complex open ended test and validation problemsnDeveloping and proving analytical models to understand test system interaction with Touch sensorsnDriving 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 deliverablenDesigning metrics and figures-of-merit to guide touch design and performance trackingnLeading the development and execution of engineering validation and characterization methodologies for Apples touch solutions across different and designing HW u0026 SW infrastructure for innovative test solutionsnManaging vendors to implement validation tools plans and infrastructurenPerforming failure mode analysis with advanced detailed analysis tools to drive root cause diagnosisnAuthoring reports and communications pertaining to key concepts results and checkpointsnBusiness travel (up to 20% domestic and international travel) to support product development is required

Strong electrical engineering background in analog/mixed-signal testing methodologies or prior industry experience in owning validation/test efforts on productsnMinimum requirement of a bachelors degree

Multi disciplinary understanding of EE ME and Physics principlesnHigh proficiency in software and algorithm prototyping/analysis using scripting languages like Matlab/PythonnWillingness 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 nExperience in HW prototyping Design of Experiments (DoE) FA/CA (Failure Analysis / Corrective Action)nProficient in data visualization and statistical analysis tools such as Tableau SpotFire JMP Python or Matlab or similarnExcellent project management skills written/verbal communication skills and solid people skills nExperience with touch technologynMS with relevant industry experience