Product Safety Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
Hardware
At Apple, phenomenal ideas have a way of becoming exceptional products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Imagine what you could do here!
This position is offered in the Product Safety Engineering department within Apple's Product Integrity organization. Our mission is to ensure that Apple products meet international safety standards and regulations and those requirements benefit Apple’s brand and the highest expectations. Apple’s Product Safety Group seeks a high-energy, poised, data-driven, and detailed oriented engineer with background in electrical/electronics engineering, to support safety engineering design, testing, and continuous improvement strategies.
Come join us to innovate consumer products!
Key Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering experience in consumer, medical, space product design experience with a deep knowledge of electronics design, product safety, and risk failure analysis.
- Evaluate, test, and author reports in compliance with IEC/EN/UL/CSA 60950 and 62368 standards. Familiarity with IEC 60065, 60601, or 62133 is acceptable, and experience with IEC 61508 is a strong plus.
- Interpret, evaluate, test, and write reports to product safety standards.
- Use engineering fundamentals, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), and fault trees to analyze electric circuits, schematics, assemblies, and manufacturing processes.
- Proficiency in using laboratory test equipment, safety test procedures, and agency requirements from consumer electronics safety standards.
- Power/electronics/electrical background and ability to conducting component-level safety analysis of electrical circuits and modules.
- Present verbally and in writing complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Description
- Secure IEC 60950 or IEC 62368-1 safety certifications to facilitate global commercialization of our products.
- Evaluate product designs of consumer electronics and new technologies for safety.
- Develop a deep understanding of our products and work with multi-functional teams to identify and address related safety requirements and resolve design challenges of new technologies
- Using scientific methods, conduct design of experiments and failure analysis.
- Own and drive the safety aspects of Apple products while influencing product design engineering and cross-functional teams in regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Develop an understanding of engineering and manufacturing processes to drive continuous improvement and prevent safety issues.
- Work with suppliers to ensure product safety is addressed and maintained during production.
Education & Experience
Master’s degree Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Mechatronics, and 5 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.