Touch/Force Hardware - Sensor System Architect
Cupertino, California, United States
Hardware
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.
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep understanding of electrical engineering, transducer physics, and system engineering
- Experience in 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
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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