Job Details

Role Number: 200652890-0836

Summary

At Apple, extraordinary ideas have a way of quickly becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences. Sound is an essential and compelling facet of the customer experience. Apple has assembled an elite Acoustics team that enables our customers to experience music with delight, communicate with clarity, and enjoy elegant sound throughout our product line. In Apple Acoustics we work with the utmost attention to detail, directly impacting the design of products that millions of people around the world love!

Our Noise & Vibration team contributes to hardware design, validation, and troubleshooting to minimize distracting audible noises and optimize their sound quality. We are a diverse team of acoustics and vibration experts, accomplished listeners, and creative problem solvers. We work daily with multifunctional teams on innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges. We are looking for a Noise & Vibration Engineer to join our team. Could this be you?

Description

As a Noise & Vibration engineer for mechanical noise you will evaluate noise from fans, keyboards, trackpads, and buttons across all of Apple’s product lines as well as set limits for such noise. Along the way you will work with module, system, functional, and manufacturing teams to optimize the sound of Apple products. We do not own any product designs, but we work with the design owners and provide design guidance where possible.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of acoustics and vibration principles and how motion of mechanical systems turns into radiated noise.

• Acoustic and vibration measurement experience.

• Data analysis skills for transient and quasi-steady signals (e.g. time series, FFT, spectrogram).

• Critical listener with good hearing over the audible frequency range.

• Basic knowledge of programming in order to create/modify data processing scripts and metric calculations.

• Creative problem solver with attention to details who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data collection using low-noise microphones in anechoic/hemi-anechoic chambers.

• Experience with fan noise testing and drivers of tonal and broadband fan noise aspects.

• Experience with testing noise of mechanical buttons/switches and methods to automate actuation of such.

• History of developing high-volume consumer electronics.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .