About this role
Apple's Battery Engineering team is seeking an experienced FEA Engineer to play a critical role in the design, qualification, and manufacturing of battery systems that power Apple's portable electronic devices. In this position, your models and simulations will directly inform design decisions for nearly every battery Apple ships, impacting reliability, safety, manufacturing processes, and performance across the product portfolio.
In this role, your work will directly influence the design and performance of battery systems in products used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. You will be at the center of Apple's battery innovation engine, enabling faster development cycles, improved product safety and reliability, and breakthrough performance.
Minimum Qualifications
MS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Applied Mechanics, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or similar
Experience with commercial finite element analysis software such as Abaqus
Experience with advanced simulation techniques such as nonlinear constitutive modeling and modeling of high speed events and large deformations
Experience programming in Python
Experience building, debugging, and calibrating finite element models
Preferred Qualifications
PhD and 10+ years relevant industry experience
Experience with coupled thermal-mechanical or electrochemical-mechanical modeling
Experience with LS-DYNA, ANSYS, or COMSOL
Exposure to physics-based machine learning methods for surrogate modeling or model order reduction
Custom solver development or user-defined material model implementation experience
Industry experience in battery mechanics, electrochemistry, or energy storage systems
Experience validating complex models against experimental data
Experience designing and executing physical tests for material characterization or model validation
Familiarity with high-performance computing (HPC) environments and version-controlled software development workflows