Test u0026 Instrumentation Development Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

The Instrumentation and Test technology team architects and designs best-in-class Test and Measurement Systems. The team is a collaborative group of creative and smart people developing highly complex and sophisticated Test and Measurement Systems to support the testing of sensors in our world-class products. This individual will play a key role in defining, architecting, specifying, designing, validating, and developing Test and Measurement Instruments to support new product bring up, characterization, ramp, and production. You will play a key role in architecting, specifying, designing, developing, validating and launching our touch technology product characterization & instrumentation software and firmware. Working with a wide cross-functional teams on new cutting-edge products, you will enable critical sensor calibration and testing in a high pace & energy product development team.

Requirements

• Experience with Objective C and Mac Software development workflows
• Experience in firmware development (knowledge of I2C, SPI, and other protocols) in data acquisition & measurement applications
• Experience working in high-volume consumer electronics projects
• Background with Touch or Sensing Technology
• Experience with digital signal processing or image processing
• Experience with using instrument camera and optical capture system as bonus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills to debug and perform failure analysis across a variety of engineering domains
• Experience in design of experiment (DOE) and other problem-solving processes
• Able to understand and perform statistical data analysis (eg. JMP, Minitab, R)
• Able to make international travel to Asia up to 25% of the time

Responsibilities

• Architecting, designing, developing instrumentation hardware, software & firmware platforms required to test and calibrate sensors
• Production instrumentation software creation and roll-out to suppliers
• Authoring sensing technology instrumentation engineering requirements documents
• Prototyping, bring-up, debug and characterization of instruments for new Apple new products
• Preparing and delivering technical presentations
• Defect root cause analysis and resolution, including diligent bug database tracking
• Supplier liaison, including supporting instrumentation bring up and qualification at engineering builds, usually in Asia

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees