Job Details

Touch/Force Hardware - Sensor System Architect

San Diego, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Oct 25, 2024

Role Number: 200573491

The Sensor Architecture team is a multi-disciplinary team that develops state-of-the-art technologies and sensor modules across Apple’s product portfolio, including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and more.

Description

The key focus areas for the team include:
Architecting the entire sensor system for each product—defining key figures of merit, setting specifications, and authoring requirements specifications for the entire sensor-system-tree to guarantee the customer experience
Building comprehensive sensor models that capture the entire signal chain—physical, electrical, and algorithmic—to streamline algorithm prototyping and guarantee performance in high-volume production
First-principles physical modeling and analysis to better understand design tradeoffs in our sensor designs and efficiently intuit optimal solutions
Co-architect and assess design tradeoffs with partner teams like display, wireless charging, and product design, to ensure best-possible performance for the entire product
Identifying novel sensing architectures and similar opportunities to significantly impact performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience

• B.S. Degree in one of these fields: Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of EE, Transducer physics, system engineering

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

• Proficiency in MATLAB and COMSOL or equivalent packages

• Ability to add clarity to ambiguous design spaces, independently converge technical issues, and align efforts across teams

• Excellent communication, teamwork, and leadership skills

• Signal processing techniques, both analog and digital

• Linear algebra, probability, and statistics

• Software architecture best practices for complicated tool flows

• Circuit simulation experience

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $296,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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