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Materials Color Modeling Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 06, 2025

Role Number: 200608264

Here at Apple, the development and implementation of revolutionary materials into our products is critical to the mechanical integrity, aesthetics, and overall feel our customers have come to love. These materials are an essential aspect of what makes Apple products the best electronic devices in the world.

Our Materials Product Design team works hard to develop new materials that influence and enable innovative enclosure designs across all Apple product lines. We work with the utmost attention to detail, directly impacting the design of products that millions of people around the world love!

Sitting within Materials PD, our Computational Materials Science team provides forward-thinking modeling that guides materials design solutions. We are looking for Computational Materials Engineer with a strong background in metallurgy and programming to help take Apple products to the next level. Could this be you?

Description

As a member of the Computational Materials Science team at Apple, you will help create the next generation of the world's finest consumer electronic devices. You will support the rapid advancement of alloys, coatings, and processes that are the building blocks of our products. This position will interface primarily with materials engineers on the Materials Product Design team as well as other FEA and ML based computational teams to advance and shape Apple’s advanced materials.

This position will directly support materials teams and lead materials modeling projects related to bulk materials and coatings. Responsibilities will include using first principles to propose and validate mechanisms driving complex materials behavior, and then developing the appropriate process-structure-property relationships that can be used by the Materials Engineering team to deliver innovative and robust substrate and coating solutions. The successful candidate must posses the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities.

Minimum Qualifications

• A strong understanding of physical metallurgy principles

• Experience running and developing material models, as well as managing external modeling vendors is essential.

• Strong computer coding skills; Python preferred

• Experience developing or applying materials and data modeling tools (for example: DFT, atomistics, phase field, CALPHAD, FEA, ML/AI) is desirable

• Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced environment

• PhD in Materials Science & Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical knowledge of pigments, dyes, resins, and other precursor materials

• Familiarity with color analysis and color modeling (reflectance curves, visual assessment of color)

• Experience working remotely with vendors

• Experience working on multiple products/coatings on di?erent development timelines

• Track record of material selection and development for products with demanding performance requirements

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