Touch HW EE Validation Engineer

Austin Metro Area San Francisco Bay Area Until 9/22/2026 10+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

The Touch Technology team develops innovative Touch solutions and technologies that are central to Apple’s products, including the iPhones, iPads, AppleWatch, and more. The key goal of the team is to design the world’s best multi-touch user-experience. Bring devices to life and enable them to interact with users and the environment in ways never imagined before. Join us in developing solutions for next-gen touch technologies! The team features a collaborative and hands-on environment that fosters engineering excellence, creativity, and innovation. An engineer in this role develops strategies and solutions that ensures that Apple products meet the exacting touch performance standards in terms of hardware and user experience.

Description

The role involves development and execution of validation and characterization methodologies for Apple’s touch solutions, from proof-of-concept to mass production.

Minimum Qualifications

Prior industry experience owning validation/test efforts on analog, mixed signal or sensor products
Fundamental knowledge of physics, analog circuit and signals analysis, circuit design and statistics
BS and a minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with touch technology
High proficiency in software and algorithm prototyping/analysis using scripting languages like Matlab/Python
Willingness to wear multiple hats, go beyond normal Roles and Responsibilities to dive deep in to an issue including ability to breakdown an existing Algorithm to enhance understanding
Experience in HW prototyping, Design of Experiments (DoE), FA/CA (Failure Analysis /Corrective Action)
Proficient in data visualization and statistical analysis tools such as Tableau, SpotFire, JMP, Python or Matlab or similar
Excellent project management skills, written/verbal communication skills and solid people skills
MS / PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline

About this role

Summary

Develop and execute validation and characterization for touch hardware at Apple.

Job title

Touch HW EE Validation Engineer

Experience level

10+ years

Minimum experience

10+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

On-site in Austin, SF, or San Diego; remote not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

validationanalog designsignals analysiscircuit design

Preferred skills

touch technologymatlabpythonhardware prototypingdata visualizationproject management

Specializations

touch technologyanalog circuitsensor productshardware prototypingstatistics
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City

San Diego, CA, USA

On-site City