Optical Integration Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Hardware
Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge? Do you thrive on pushing the limits of what’s considered feasible? As part of our Display Technologies group, you’ll help ensure our products’ displays work beautifully through the successful design, fabrication, and implementation of components in Apple devices. From initial concept to mass production, you’ll develop highly innovative displays for the full line of Apple products, including Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Through touch and sight, these displays are how millions of Apple customers connect with our products every single day. Together, you’ll collaborate with multifunctional teams across Apple to make each interaction a magical experience to see and touch.
Description
We are seeking a hardworking engineer to support the design and integration of Apple’s products by owning the investigation of sophisticated optical and electro-optical components inside camera, display and sensing modules. You will work with both suppliers and cross-functional teams at Apple to craft the technologies that go into our outstanding products.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identifying areas where optical components can improve display, camera, sensor performance and customer experience
- Identifying and defining equipment for high-volume manufacturing and process (including deposition, patterning and etch) solutions for technically complex nano-fabricated optical components to enable new designs and functional requirements
- Leading the multi-functional interaction with Product Design, Engineering/Operations, and drive international suppliers to deliver optics components/modules
- Leading root cause analysis and trouble-shooting for failures and component performance improvement
- Defining Engineering Requirement Specification (ERS) for the optical components IQC, OQC, and IPQC
- Providing meticulous presentations and reports to a broad range of collaborators, including management, peers, and suppliers
Minimum Qualifications
- BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience in Engineering Physics, Material Science, Physics, Chemistry or equivalent
- Experience with nano-optics manufacturing process including deposition, lithography, nano-imprint, etching etc.
- Knowledge and experience of thin film or nanostructure optical design and modeling, process and characterization
- Thin film understanding and nanostructure related metrologies (XPS, SEM, TEM, AFM, XRD, SIMS, FT-IR, etc.) and optical devices related characterization methods (interferometer, spectrometer, ellipsometry, etc.)
- Excellent cross-functional coordination and team management
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience and proven track record in areas relating to optics, optical coating or advanced semiconductor process technology development
- Experience with diffraction optics, metasurface optics or nanophotonics
- Experience with simulation software for optical, FEA or Multiphysics , such as COMSOL
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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