Manufacturing Design
About The Position
Apple Inc. is hiring for a Manufacturing Design role in Cupertino, California, and various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. The position develops and implements cleaning cycles for varied substrates and geometries to enable decorative coatings, and creates engineered-surface processes that meet Apple specifications for cosmetic quality, function, reliability, yield, and cost. The role works with equipment and consumables vendors to develop manufacturing-feasible solutions and collaborates with Apple Industrial Design, Product Design, and Manufacturing Design to establish working specifications. Responsibilities include designing and executing experiments to optimize process yield and product quality; conducting failure analysis and surface characterization to investigate technical issues and define specifications; developing manufacturing-feasible processes and validating them through engineering builds with cross-functional stakeholders; collecting, analyzing, and presenting data to support design and commercial decisions; and driving overseas manufacturers to implement solutions that meet production yield and cost targets. The role also determines root causes of coating issues, drives corrective actions, evaluates data to establish process and part specification limits, sets supplier audit procedures to ensure compliance with Apple standards, and evaluates and communicates process yields. International travel of 30% is required. The schedule is 40 hours per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Nanotechnology Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Material Science Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
- Five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Five years of experience with designing for manufacturing (DFM) to develop working specifications for wet cleaning or chemical treatment processes, including equipment design, fixture design, ultrasonics, and drying.
- Five years of experience using Design of Experiments (DOE) to develop and optimize key process variables to meet product specifications.
- Five years of experience using FMEA to investigate technical issues, determine root causes, and identify mitigation paths.
- Five years of experience using failure-analysis techniques such as SEM/EDS, TEM, XPS, FTIR, and GCMS to characterize surfaces and coating failure mechanisms.
- Five years of experience using JMP or Tableau to analyze large volumes of data.
- Five years of experience creating failure-analysis reports and data-rich presentations to communicate clearly with stakeholders and support technical and commercial decisions.
- Five years of experience with New Product Introduction (NPI)-to-Mass Production (MP) engagement with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders to validate processes and scale for volume production.
- Experience independently managing projects in a fast-paced, matrixed organization to close issues and execute development activities on schedule and meet program targets.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement cleaning cycles for a range of substrates and geometries to support subsequent decorative coatings at high yield.
- Develop and implement processes for engineered surfaces that meet Apple specifications for cosmetics, function, reliability, and yield.
- Work with equipment and consumables vendors to develop manufacturing-feasible solutions that meet yield and cost targets.
- Design and execute experiments to optimize processes for yield and product quality.
- Collaborate with Apple Industrial Design, Product Design, and Manufacturing Design to establish working specifications for engineered surfaces.
- Conduct failure analysis and surface characterization to identify root causes of technical issues and define specifications.
- Develop manufacturing-feasible processes and validate them through engineering builds with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Collect, analyze, and present data to support design and commercial decisions.
- Drive overseas manufacturers to implement solutions that meet manufacturing yield and cost targets.
- Determine root causes of coating issues and drive corrective actions.
- Evaluate data to establish appropriate limits and variables for process and part specifications.
- Establish supplier audit procedures appropriate to the program to ensure adherence to Apple standards.
- Evaluate and communicate yields of new and existing processes.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products
- Free services
- Reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to career advancement at Apple
- Potential discretionary bonuses or commission payments
- Potential relocation assistance
- Opportunity to participate in discretionary restricted stock unit awards
- Opportunity to purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
