Noise & Vibration Engineer - Mechanical Noise

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!\\n\\nOur 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?

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.

Knowledge of acoustics and vibration principles and how motion of mechanical systems turns into radiated noise.\nAcoustic and vibration measurement experience.\nData analysis skills for transient and quasi-steady signals (e.g. time series, FFT, spectrogram).\nCritical listener with good hearing over the audible frequency range.\nBasic knowledge of programming in order to create/modify data processing scripts and metric calculations.\nCreative problem solver with attention to details who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.

Experience with data collection using low-noise microphones in anechoic/hemi-anechoic chambers.\nExperience with fan noise testing and drivers of tonal and broadband fan noise aspects.\nExperience with testing noise of mechanical buttons/switches and methods to automate actuation of such.\nHistory of developing high-volume consumer electronics.