Noise & Vibration Engineer

Overview

At Apple we assemble an elite Acoustics team that enables customers to experience music with delight, communicate with clarity, and enjoy elegant sound throughout our product line. Our Noise & Vibration team contributes to hardware design, validation, and troubleshooting to minimize distracting audible noises and optimize sound quality. We are a diverse team of acoustics and vibration experts, accomplished listeners, and creative problem solvers who work daily with multifunctional teams on innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges.

We are looking for a Noise & Vibration Engineer to join our team.

Author SOPs, test plans, and specifications; quantify noises; facilitate user studies; establish thresholds in lab and factory environments; educate multi‑functional teams to implement standard methodologies; run studies to learn new best practices; analyze validation work to understand root causes of various problems.

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field welcomed but not essential.
• Experience as a generalist working across multiple types of engineering effort is valuable.
• Creative problem solver who thrives in a fast‑paced multi‑tasking environment.

• Knowledge of acoustics and vibration principles and how motion of mechanical systems turns into radiated noise.
• Fundamental knowledge of how voltage potential and current can lead to vibration.
• Basic understanding of RF, thermal, acoustic, magnetics, and mechanical statics and dynamics (preferred if applied to acoustic transducers such as MEMS microphones, receivers, and micro‑speakers).
• Acoustic and vibration measurement skills with experience making measurements in anechoic/hemi‑anechoic chambers.
• Accomplished listener with excellent hearing over the audible frequency range.
• Ability to learn new coding languages and navigate large datasets.
• Useful but not required: history of‑volume consumer electronics, experience with ultra low‑noise measurements and a background in electrical engineering; familiarity with sensing technologies and their electrical interfaces such as PDM, differential analog, I2C.

Base pay range for this role is $132,100–$199,000 and will depend on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become shareholders through employee stock programs, purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and receive comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products, and free services. This role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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