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Apple Alloy Engineering - Manufacturing Design 
United States, California, Sunnyvale 
766745384

Today
Work onsite and remotely with our raw material suppliers to communicate development objectives and build common understanding.Develop casting and related processes including heat treatments to meet our functional and cosmetic requirements.Utilize Designs of Experiment for data-driven process refinement.Summarize and report process information and trial results to multi-functional teams.Support new materials as they scale towards mass production, establishing robust process SOPs and in-process quality controls.Audit new suppliers and evaluate their technical capability and equipment suitability for our needs.Drive the selection of new equipment or technologies as needed to achieve cosmetic or functional requirements.
  • 3+ years hands-on process development in a metal production factory
  • Deep understanding of process-structure-property to achieve cosmetic and mechanical requirements
  • Experience developing and optimizing melting/alloying processes for unique alloys
  • Master’s degree or higher in Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, Materials Manufacturing, or equivalent experience
  • Periodic international travel (~ 25%) to support process development
  • Aluminum, Stainless Steel, and/or Titanium process experience - charging, melting, alloying, refining, casting, extrusion, drawing/rolling
  • Skilled at using metallurgical analysis tools to diagnose issues and drive process corrections
  • Flexibility to tackle challenges in new areas, and to apply a broad foundation of knowledge to identify methods of investigation and study
  • Quality Engineering experience - knowledge of statistical process control
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