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 - 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 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 based in Bengaluru, India.
Description
As part of Apple's Noise & Vibration group, this Engineer will lead in-region noise and vibration activities in Bengaluru, India, with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Implementing test methodologies, writing test scripts, and creating test plans and standard operating procedures for acoustic noise testing in factory environments
- Analyzing data using noise level, noise spectrum, and sound quality metrics
- Troubleshooting design or process issues that result in acoustic noise
- Creating and implementing innovative test and noise issue resolution solutions
- Working closely with Apple US and China Noise & Vibration teams, as well as local and headquarters cross-functional teams, across all noise and vibration activities
- Coordinating with contract manufacturer teams in testing, failure analysis, data management, and work planning, to ensure smooth lab operation and timely delivery of high-quality test data and troubleshooting results
- Setting up factory noise and vibration test labs and bringing up testers
- International travel several times per year
Minimum Qualifications
- Most of our engineers have advanced degrees in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in acoustics or vibration, or in an equivalent field. If you have followed a different path to expertise in these areas, we still want to hear from you.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in nose and vibration engineering
- Ability to effectively contribute in a fast-paced, constantly changing, and multitasking environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong theoretical and experimental background in acoustics and/or vibration
- Experience with vibration modal testing and analysis
- Critical listener with good hearing across the audible frequency range
- Comfortable with Matlab, Python, or other scripting languages, and ability to learn new scripting skills
- Extensive experience to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Experience to coordinate with contract manufacturers and suppliers is a plus
- Working knowledge of project management is beneficial
- Excellent English communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts
- Flexibility in problem-solving approaches
