Mechanical Design Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Hardware
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Product Design/Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, development and validation of silicon validation test fixtures and provide fixture-design support to other Apple engineering teams.
Key Qualifications
- The ideal candidate will have hands-on product design experience in consumer electronic products or modules, direct fixture design experience is highly preferred.
- 3D CAD experience required, NX preferred.
- Experience with ECAD-MCAD data exchange using IDF, IDX required.
- Scientific method, experimental process, root cause analysis
- Applied knowledge in flex circuits, printed circuit boards, material science and basic chemistry is helpful
- Disciplined in GD&T practices with close attention to datum establishment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and people skills; ability to interact with management, team members and external vendors
- The candidate must be able to communicate well with cross-functional team members, be able to efficiently collaborate with team members to achieve project goals, and contribute positively to the engineering community
Description
This design engineer will own the end-to-end mechanical development of test fixtures for silicon validation, with responsibilities including:
- Defining mechanical requirement and interface for fixtures
- Brainstorming design concepts and executing design concepts in all phases of a development cycle.
- Generating innovative designs with cross-functional teams
- Defining mechanical component outlines and assembly schemes
- Communicating cross-functionally on design directions and requirements
- Generating fixture design PD specifications
- Generate 3D CAD model of PCB including Keepout, Keepin, Height restriction and perform cross check
- Generating dimensional and tolerance analysis
- Managing and tracking multiple priorities within schedule requirements
- Prototype bring-up, debug and characterization
- Participating in the development of new testing processes
- Conducting design reviews and driving fabrication
- Design validation and characterization from prototype bring-up to product testing
- Driving failure analyses and design of experiments (DOEs) to reach design solutions and corrective actions.
Education & Experience
Minimum requirement of BS + 3 years of relevant proven experience.