Apple - Cupertino, CA
posted 2 months ago
The Hardware Test Engineering team at Apple plays a crucial role in maintaining quality standards across the company's product lines. As a System Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and deployment of systems that perform calibration and performance validation of optical sensors. This position encompasses the entire lifecycle of the test system, from initial prototyping to deployment in mass production environments. You will collaborate closely with the Optical and Health Sensing design group to define calibration and testing procedures, and design high-precision instrumentation and systems to efficiently execute these tasks in a factory setting. In this role, you will specify, design, validate, and deploy automated equipment for testing and calibrating devices as part of Apple's new product introduction (NPI) and mass production processes. Your responsibilities will be tailored to your technical background, but may include architecting hardware systems for testing and calibrating optical and health sensors, modeling and simulating instrumentation errors, and developing and debugging test software using C/C++/Objective-C. You will also analyze large datasets from sensors, perform root cause analysis for failures, and optimize existing algorithms for better performance. You will lead cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers, working collaboratively with a diverse group of expert engineers from various disciplines, including Systems Hardware, Product Design, Reliability, Software, and Operations. This position requires a strong ability to balance engineering requirements with manufacturing efficiency while ensuring high product quality.