Product Design FEA Engineer

Apple • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

As a member of the Product Design FEA team, you will use your understanding of mechanics, materials, and numerical methods to play a pivotal role in predictive engineering and directly impact the success of new iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, Vision Pro, and many more future products. You will design experiments to characterize materials, advance mathematical descriptions and simulation workflows, and validate them at various scales to deploy to the company-wide FEA community. You will be a communication channel with suppliers and vendors to explore new technologies and simulation methods. You will be fully integrated with the product design team from the earliest stages to support ground-breaking products. You will interpret the system-level FEA results and compare them with highly instrumented tests to close identified gaps through the bottom-up approach.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of solid mechanics.
• Experience in constitutive modeling.
• Experience in implicit and explicit finite element analysis (FEA).
• Attention to detail and commitment to verification/validation.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment with a passion for creating cutting-edge products.
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Material Science, or a similar discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in constitutive modeling and large deformation theory.
• Experience in polymer testing and modeling.
• Experience with Abaqus, ANSYS, and META.
• Self-motivated to identify areas for improvement and drive innovation.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and written and verbal communication.
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Material Science, or a similar discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design experiments to characterize materials.
• Advance mathematical descriptions and simulation workflows.
• Validate mathematical descriptions and simulation workflows at various scales to deploy to the company-wide FEA community.
• Act as a communication channel with suppliers and vendors to explore new technologies and simulation methods.
• Support product design teams from the earliest stages.
• Interpret system-level FEA results and compare them with highly instrumented tests to close identified gaps through the bottom-up approach.

What This Job Offers

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