DFM Engineer-Rigid PCBA

Imagine what you can accomplished as a team in Apple, if you are working with very passionate and talented peoples! The people in Apple not only build a product that love by its customer but products that also revolutionized the entire industries. The diversity of those peoples and their ideas drive the innovation in everything we that do daily; create a better environment to our communities and bring lots of happiness to our customer. Join us in Apple, and help us to build a better world tomorrow. We are looking for highly self motivated and passionate DFM engineers. You are responsible to develop the manufacturing recipes for the surface mount assembly processes and the backend soldering stations. You are also responsible to manage contract manufacturers’ development and mass production builds in term of the build readiness; guide the factory team to resolve sophisticated and complicated process, equipment or material related quality issue.

Description

We work with Cupertino (CPTO) engineering team to validate new product design for manufacturability and provide recommendation for design change to drive for highest product’s yield and reliability at the most cost efficient manner. You will be able to partner with CPTO teams to develop a new manufacturing process and station with an innovative and creative solutions. We will provide our guidance to contract manufacturers’ engineers and partner with them to support all the build activities from the very beginning of product development (e.g. Proto, EVT, DVT and PVT) until the product end of life after mass production. You will plan, develop and implement new procedures to handle the PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) fabrication processes and quality control at contract manufacturers’ sites. We work with multi-functional teams and responsible to ensure the success of project transition from engineering builds at the top tier site to the volume production builds at various sites. Occasionally, you may be appointed as a project leader to work on various exciting and meaningful improvement projects aside from our daily responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor of Engineering degree or equivalent academic qualifications in engineering, mechanical-electrical integration(mechatronics) or other science subjects
• Minimum 3 years meaningful experiences in equipment design (mechanical design or mechatronics design) of surface mount technology / PCBA assembly / FPCA assembly or other relevant industries (e.g. component packaging assembly, automation integration, etc..)

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with mechatronics design / validation / qualification & buyoff, 2~3years working in equipment mechatronics design company will be preferred.
• Experience of coding, smart manufacturing, digital transformation or using AI/LLM with analytical mind for process data analysis is an advantage.
• Possess PCBA assembly process knowledge, failure analysis tools and methodologies.
• Possess good communication skill and demonstrate strong leadership skill, good team-player with an ability to collaborate multiple functional groups.
• Positive demeanor or personality with a “can do” attitude and can perform well under stress and high pressure situation.
Willingness and ability to travel domestic and overseas upon request for business reasons.

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