iPhone Touch Sensing Architect
Description For iPhone Touch Sensing Architect
The iPhone Touch Sensing Technology team at Apple is dedicated to creating the world's best User Experiences through innovative sensing solutions. They develop and deliver high-precision, low-latency MultiTouch solutions that set the industry standard in smartphones and mobile devices. As a Touch Sensing Architect, you'll be instrumental in conceiving, modeling, prototyping, and integrating new sensor solutions for the iPhone. The role involves tackling daily challenges that require innovation across multiple technical disciplines, including Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Algorithms. The team offers a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence and creativity, working on technology from proof-of-concept through ultra-high-volume production. You'll be responsible for developing key performance metrics, creating comprehensive models, designing sensors and ASIC applications, and providing technical leadership across teams. This role combines deep technical expertise with system-level thinking and requires strong communication skills to drive innovation in touch sensing technology.
Responsibilities For iPhone Touch Sensing Architect
- Develop key figures of merit critical to performance and author requirement specifications
- Develop end-to-end models capturing sensor, circuits, DSP, and algorithms
- Develop tools, scripts, and infrastructure to enable scalable modeling
- Sensor design, ASIC application design, system-level integration and bring-up
- Analyze and reconcile build data with model predictions
- Perform failure analysis, identify root causes and propose corrective actions
- Provide clear technical updates to broader team and leadership
Requirements For iPhone Touch Sensing Architect
- Deep understanding of physics, analog circuits, linear algebra
- Experience in modeling, building and testing sophisticated, multi-physics systems
- Proficiency in MATLAB, SPICE, COMSOL or similar packages
- Hands-on experience in system-level design, architecture, characterization and validation
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity, independently converge technical issues, and align efforts across teams
- Excellent communication, teamwork, and leadership skills
- BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
- Experience with high-volume mass production is a plus
