Job:FEA engineer@Apple

Senior FEA (Finite Element Analysis) Engineer to lead structural, thermal, and dynamic analysis of touch sensor, flat panel displays and their integration process.

Core Responsibilities:
This FEA engineer will own and drive analysis of cutting edge designs, enabling early
material, process and structural design optimization as well as root cause and failure
analysis of difficult mechanical problems.

• Generate FEA/analytical models of mechanical parts, modules, and assemblies.
Perform static, dynamic, structural, and thermal-mechanical analysis.
• Own and drive material characterization and testing plan to support modeling efforts.
Working knowledge with adhesive material, ACF material, flat panel display
material is preferred.
• Own, drive, and execute consistent methods of modeling and analysis of modules
across programs.
• Coordinate and work with other analysts to integrate module models into larger system
assemblies.
• Communicate and report analysis results to team as well as cross-functional peers and
management on a regular basis.
• Drive failure analysis, root cause efforts, and design of experiments to resolve difficult
problems.
• Brainstorm and propose solutions to problems based on analysis data.
• Generate applicable engineering specifications and create applicable processes to
assure consistent early analysis and design validation of critical issues.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in advanced FEA analysis in high
volume consumer electronic products and/or modules. Direct experience with flat panel
display, touch sensor, lamination process is preferred.

• High proficiency in Abaqus (Implicit & Explicit) or ANSYS required
• Structural and thermal focus; non-linear FEA experience is highly desirable.
• Applied knowledge/experience with flex circuits, ACF bonding, adhesives, flat panel
display, material science and basic chemistry.
• Applied knowledge/experience with structural optimization based on FEA automation and/or machine learning is highly desired
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and people skills; ability to interact
with management, team members and external vendors
• The candidate must be able to communicate well with cross-functional team members,
be able to efficiently collaborate with team members to achieve project goals, and
contribute positively to the engineering community.
• Must be able to multi-task and set priority in fast paced working environment

Education: MSME required; PhD preferred

Mechanical Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanics of Materials