Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

9h • $163,500 - $246,200

About The Position

Apple Inc. is hiring an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer in Cupertino, California, and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. The role is responsible for designing precision assembly and measurement processes for Apple products and researching and developing technologies to address complex assembly and automation problems affecting product quality and delivery. The engineer designs, implements, and scales automated and semi-automated solutions using sound engineering principles and application-specific technologies, and develops improved processes to enhance quality and efficiency.

The role organizes cross-functional reviews of machine requirements, design, qualification, and capability, and prepares data-analysis reports communicating machine capability to multifunctional teams. It creates RFQs and RFPs documenting automated-equipment design requirements, delivery schedules, required documentation, and acceptance qualification at machine supplier facilities and contract manufacturer factories. The engineer drives machine qualification, including correlation, process capability (CP/CPK), and Gage Repeatability/Reproducibility (GR&R), and leads failure analysis and machine issue resolution with suppliers and contract manufacturers. International travel of 30% is required. The position is 40 hours per week.

The base pay range is $163,500–$246,200 per year, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple also describes employee stock programs, comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, reimbursement for certain career-related educational expenses including tuition, and possible discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation, subject to applicable eligibility and plan terms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related field.
• Three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Three years of experience designing and implementing machine qualification requirements, design of experiments, and failure analysis.
• Three years of experience utilizing tolerance analysis for parts and assemblies.
• Three years of experience with machine qualifications, including calibration, correlation, capability, repeatability, and reproducibility, to validate equipment.
• Three years of experience with cost reduction, project management, and engineering design.
• Three years of experience applying GD&T principles in product and machine design.
• Three years of experience using NX, SolidWorks CAD, or ProE for product and machine design.
• Three years of experience with robotics (6-axis and/or SCARA), pneumatics, servo motors, motion controllers, PLC, and PC-based control systems for automation design.
• Three years of experience applying optical principles related to CCD cameras and 2D and 1D lasers for positioning and critical alignment machines in automation design.
• Three years of experience with liquid adhesives, PSAs, and VHBs as used in automated design.

Responsibilities

• Design precision assembly and measurement processes for Apple products.
• Research and develop technologies to address complex assembly and automation problems that affect product quality and delivery.
• Design, implement, and scale automated and semi-automated solutions using sound engineering principles and technologies developed for specific applications.
• Develop new and improved processes to improve quality and efficiency through theoretical and practical engineering.
• Organize cross-functional reviews of machine requirements, design, qualification, and capability.
• Prepare data-analysis reports communicating machine capability to multifunctional teams.
• Create RFQs and RFPs documenting automated-equipment design requirements, delivery schedules, required documentation, and acceptance qualification at machine supplier facilities and contract manufacturer factories.
• Drive machine qualification, including correlation, process capability (CP/CPK), and Gage Repeatability/Reproducibility (GR&R).
• Drive failure analysis and resolve machine issues with machine suppliers and contract manufacturers to address complex manufacturing issues.
• Travel internationally 30% of the time.

Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in Apple discretionary employee stock programs, including discretionary restricted stock unit awards and discounted Apple stock through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing a career at Apple.
• May be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• May be eligible for relocation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level