Apple
Touch HW EE Validation Engineer
$175K–$325K
Austin, Texas +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California
San Diego, California - Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- BS; MS / PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline preferred.
About the job
Develops and leads hardware and software validation and characterization for Apple touch technologies, from proof of concept through mass production.
What you'll do
- Architect test and validation solutions, analytical models, metrics, and HW & SW infrastructure for touch sensors.
- Lead validation plans with cross-functional teams and vendors; diagnose failures and root causes.
- Execute characterization and validation, and communicate results through reports.
What they ask for
- Industry experience owning validation or test efforts on analog, mixed-signal, or sensor products.
- Fundamental knowledge of physics, analog circuits, signal analysis, circuit design, and statistics.
- BS and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Touch technology experience; software or algorithm prototyping and analysis with Matlab/Python.
- HW prototyping, Design of Experiments (DoE), failure analysis/corrective action, or data visualization and statistical analysis tools.
Pay
$175,000 and $308,500 (base salary); $184,700 and $324,800 (base salary)
Tools
Matlab, Python, Tableau, SpotFire, JMP
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