Touch HW EE Validation Engineer
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.","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.
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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 20% domestic and international travel) to support product development is required
Preferred Qualifications
MS / PhD with 5+ years of relevant industry experience
Multi disciplinary understanding of EE, ME and Physics principles
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
Experience with touch technology
Minimum Qualifications
BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
Strong electrical engineering background in analog/mixed-signal testing methodologies or prior industry experience in owning validation/test efforts on products
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