Apple
Battery FEA Engineer
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 10+ years relevant industry experience.
- Education
- MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or similar.
About the job
Develop and validate finite element and multiphysics simulations that guide battery design, qualification, manufacturing, and product reliability.
What you'll do
- Build, calibrate, and validate high-fidelity battery models against experimental data to inform product design and qualification.
- Develop automated simulation workflows and use modeling and job automation to explore, calibrate, and optimize designs.
- Design test methods, instrumentation, and measurement strategies for material characterization and model validation.
What they ask for
- MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or similar.
- Experience with commercial finite element analysis software such as Abaqus.
- Experience with advanced simulation techniques, including nonlinear constitutive modeling and modeling high-speed events and large deformations.
- Experience programming in Python and building, debugging, and calibrating finite element models.
Nice to have
- PhD and 10+ years of relevant industry experience; experience in battery mechanics, electrochemistry, or energy storage systems.
- Experience with coupled thermal-mechanical or electrochemical-mechanical modeling, physics-based machine learning, custom solver or user-defined material models, experimental validation, or HPC.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
Abaqus, Python, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, COMSOL, HPC
AI focus
Use agentic automation, surrogate modeling, reduced-order modeling, and physics-based machine learning for simulation workflows, design exploration, calibration, and optimization.
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