The Motion Sensing team develops ground breaking sensors that are central to enabling MEMS and magnetics sensing technologies across Apple products. This team features a collaborative environment with creative, smart people and state of the art technologies. Engineering excellence and thoroughness are expected and encouraged. Invention and patent creation are expected and supported. Opening up the boundaries to design and ship innovative products with best-in-class technologies and user experiences is the main goal of this sensing technology team at Apple.
In this role, you will help ensure that our motion sensing hardware meet our users’ needs through rigorous systems engineering analysis and robust systems architectures. You will translate top-level requirements into guidance for module and system integration teams. The models you develop and curate will help our team derive accurate requirements for our motion sensor modules, and provide quantitative guidance as we navigate system integration challenges across Apple’s entire product portfolio..
Description
You will be a feature architect, responsible for proving that motion sensing hardware capabilities meet feature requirements. You will provide the quantitative link between hardware specifications and the end-user feature figures of merit.
Minimum Qualifications
BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
Preferred Qualifications
PhD and 5+ years of hands-on experience and proven track record in motion sensor (IMU, magnetometer, or pressure sensor) and/or sensing system development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and solid teamwork and leadership skills
Experience in architecture, design, characterization, and validation of motion sensor or sensing technology that includes theory of operation, signal processing, fabrication, packaging and design trade-offs
Deep understanding of electrical or mechanical engineering, transducer physics, and system engineering
Good understanding of motion sensing technologies, such as MEMS accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure sensors, and magnetic sensing technology
Good fundamentals in signal processing, probability, and statistics
Experience in modeling, building, and testing complex multi-physics systems
Experience in modeling, data collection, data analysis, and statistical analysis tools (ANSYS Maxwell, Comsol, Matlab, Python, JMP)
Responsibilities
Create and validate quantitative end-to-end models of sensors, systems, and algorithms; the models should capture the entire signal chain—physical, electrical, and algorithmic—to streamline algorithm prototyping and guarantee performance in high-volume production
Identify and translate customer user experience into hardware level performance evaluation metrics
Analyze trade-offs to provide guidance to module and system integration teams
Perform impact analyses to assess proposed requirement & specification changes
Determine the sensitivity of user-facing features to variation in sensor specifications
Predict the impact of new technologies by performing design studies
Specify data collections to validate models and collect representative user data
Author high quality and thorough engineering requirements specifications
Prepare and deliver presentations to clearly communicate technical status, risks and mitigation strategies for ongoing sensing system programs
Work cross-functionally with algorithm and feature development teams
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