Acoustics Engineer

Summary

At Apple, new ideas have a way of quickly becoming extraordinary products, services and customer experiences. Sound is an essential and compelling facet of the customer experience and Apple has assembled a world-class Acoustics team that enables our customers to experience music with delight, communicate with clarity and appreciate our products without disturbance from noise. In Apple Acoustics we work with obsessive attention to detail, directly contributing to products that ship to millions of people around the world. Our China Acoustics team plays key a role in implementing the extraordinary acoustic designs in Apple products by working closely with US team to review designs, DFMs and ramp production. This means continuous multi-functional collaboration with a wide variety of teams ranging from transducer design and audio tunings, to system hardware, software, mechanical engineering, quality and reliability. We are looking for Acoustic engineer who is self motivated and enjoys collaboration to help us advance audio performance in Apple’s next generation products. In this role you will help us optimize and execute the transducer module designs/architectures with our manufacturing partners.

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Acoustics/Mechanical vibration or a related field. Understand the fundamentals of Acoustics (such as sound waves, propagation, sound fields, etc.). Familiar with the structure and theory of speakers/transducers and microphones, and simulation of acoustic equivalent circuits. Experienced acoustic test (can be Soundcheck, Klippel, AP or similar). Good communication skills with both English and Mandarin.

Preferred Qualifications

Skilled with finite element modeling simulation (can be COMSOL, ANSYS or similar). Experience with 3D validated modeling and meshing tools (UG, SolidWork, CAD or similar). Experienced professional with a history of working with contract manufacturers. Experienced in audio test script development (Matlab, Python etc.). Familiar with audio signal processing, digital signal processing. Good collaboration ability.

Description

As part of our team, you will work in closely with US counterparts and cross-functional teams to support development builds for new products. This will include validating acoustic designs, leading failure analysis and establishing corrective actions as part of a larger team. You will also enable and verify new design concepts through experiments and map out strategy for acoustic hardware test stations. The role request approximately 40% domestic travels to support engineering activities.