Feature Architect - Motion Sensing Hardware

The Motion Sensing team develops ground breaking sensors that are central to enabling MEMS and magnetics sensing technologies across Apple products. This team features a collaborative environment with creative, smart people and state of the art technologies. Engineering excellence and thoroughness are expected and encouraged. Invention and patent creation are expected and supported. Opening up the boundaries to design and ship innovative products with best-in-class technologies and user experiences is the main goal of this sensing technology team at Apple.

In this role, you will help ensure that our motion sensing hardware meet our users' needs through rigorous systems engineering analysis and robust systems architectures. You will translate top-level requirements into guidance for module and system integration teams. The models you develop and curate will help our team derive accurate requirements for our motion sensor modules, and provide quantitative guidance as we navigate system integration challenges across Apple's entire product portfolio..

Description

You will be a feature architect, responsible for proving that motion sensing hardware capabilities meet feature requirements. You will provide the quantitative link between hardware specifications and the end-user feature figures of merit.","responsibilities":"Create and validate quantitative end-to-end models of sensors, systems, and algorithms; the models should capture the entire signal chain-physical, electrical, and algorithmic-to streamline algorithm prototyping and guarantee performance in high-volume production

Identify and translate customer user experience into hardware level performance evaluation metrics

Analyze trade-offs to provide guidance to module and system integration teams

Perform impact analyses to assess proposed requirement & specification changes

Determine the sensitivity of user-facing features to variation in sensor specifications

Predict the impact of new technologies by performing design studies

Specify data collections to validate models and collect representative user data

Author high quality and thorough engineering requirements specifications

Prepare and deliver presentations to clearly communicate technical status, risks and mitigation strategies for ongoing sensing system programs

Work cross-functionally with algorithm and feature development teams

Preferred Qualifications

PhD and 5+ years of hands-on experience and proven track record in motion sensor (IMU, magnetometer, or pressure sensor) and/or sensing system development

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skills

Experience in architecture, design, characterization, and validation of motion sensor or sensing technology that includes theory of operation, signal processing, fabrication, packaging and design trade-offs

Deep understanding of electrical or mechanical engineering, transducer physics, and system engineering

Good understanding of motion sensing technologies, such as MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, and magnetic sensing technology

Good fundamentals in signal processing, probability, and statistics

Experience in modeling, building, and testing complex multi-physics systems

Experience in modeling, data collection, data analysis, and statistical analysis tools (ANSYS Maxwell, Comsol, Matlab, Python, JMP)

Minimum Qualifications

BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience

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