Sensors bridge the gap between the physical and digital world. Every new feature and functionality opens a new doorway for the user to interact with their device or for the device to bring information to its user. The Motion Sensing Hardware Team focuses on defining and integrating MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes across a variety of Apple products such as iPhones, iPads, AirPods, and Watch. Features we help enable include Fall Detection, Spatial Audio, Optical Image Stabilization, and many others. Our team enjoys a collaborative environment where creative and smart people advance the customer experience of our devices with state of the art technologies.

You will play a key role in specifying, developing, characterizing, and validating motion sensing systems. You will also be working closely with various cross-functional teams within Apple to help deliver the best product that will surprise and delight our customers. Equally important, you will be working closely with our infrastructure team to explore opportunities to improve our existing workflow and build tools to strengthen our team’s capability. Familiarity with MEMS sensor technologies such as inertial sensor performance metrics, inertial sensor usage and limitations, MEMS modeling, and system integration are major plus!

Develop and support qualification hardware and procedures to validate sensor specifications in system.
Diagnose engineering issues with true scientific method to drive towards definitive root cause.
Identify, create, and document new sensing system metrics that deliver performance and matter to customer perception.
Support internal proof-of-concept hardware and software developments for new application investigations.
Work cross-functionally to identify and specify critical performance parameters and error sensitivities.
Develop measurement methods and equipment that are repeatable, reproducible, and automated as appropriate to enable thorough validation coverage of sensors on tight development schedules.
Support engineering build activities with performance validation measurements, yield optimization, and failure analysis coordination.
Work with suppliers to proactively identify and resolve issues.
Analyze trade-offs among performance, manufacturability, size, schedule and cost.
Travel to supplier facilities and manufacturing sites for production validation and issues resolution.
Create and help improve engineering requirements specifications for sensors.
Prepare and deliver presentations to clearly communicate technical status, risks and mitigation strategies for ongoing sensing system programs.
Establish/improve workflows that streamline team’s day-to-day tasks
Develop internal tools to improve team’s capabilities
May travel up to 20%

BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience