Metal Tooling Engineer, Intern

Summary

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Description

The Metal Tooling team is responsible for the technical interface between Apple's product design groups and our suppliers, driving the development of cutting-edge metal forming and forging tooling processes.

In this role, you will support senior engineers in vendor and project management, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the metal tooling landscape. Your contributions will include building a metal tooling platform to streamline the management of vendor-provided project information, such as schedules, issue tracking, and shipping details. You will also actively participate in stamping/forging automation projects and collaborate on the development of AI solutions for metal tooling.

You will learn metal forming, automation, and artificial intelligence skill. Learning how to work with a world-class engineering team and contribute to it. Enhance your communicator with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Tooling Design & Fabrication: Contribute to the tooling design and fabrication process, using big data to assist vendors in building AI tools for design and trial optimization, ultimately reducing design and trial time.
• Supplier Collaboration: Work closely with our suppliers to develop new metal process tooling, processing techniques, and quality specifications that meet the stringent geometric and cosmetic requirements of Apple products.
• Platform Development for Efficiency: Utilize Apple's internal tools to build a platform that automates schedule alerts, identifies potential risks, and facilitates vendor performance comparisons, significantly improving work efficiency.
• Automation Enhancement: Develop and implement AIML solutions to enhance automation capabilities in stamping/forging lines, focusing on cosmetic/dimensional defect detection and enabling machine/tool self-decision making & self-adaptive & Auto tooling maintenance through big data analysis.
• Predictive Modeling: Leverage AIML tools to create predictive models that identify potential cosmetic/dimensional issues based on incoming raw material data, tool status, equipment performance, and lubrication parameters.
• AI-Powered Tooling Development: Learn Apple's AIML platform and explore innovative solutions to integrate it with stamping/forging lines and tooling fabrication shops. Collaborate with vendors and senior engineers to develop AI applications for metal tooling.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in the metal forming industry, mechanical engineering, Automation control, Artificial Intelligence or computer science.
• Experience with AIML programming (through university projects or personal projects).
• Programming capability.
• Strong written and oral English communication skills.
• Available for a minimum 3-month internship (6 months preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of tooling and processing for metal forming.
• Material and metallurgical knowledge of metals, especially aluminum, steel, and stainless steel.
• Experience building platforms for program management.
• Experience with Tableau and coding is a plus.
• Track record of outstanding academic performances.
• Quick learner, capable to quickly pick up process knowledge, self navigated, proactively to provide innovative solution.
• Ability to work on manufacturing sites independently and willingness on over 50% travel frequently (mainly in China).
• Deep understanding of machine learning model development and optimization for numerical data and image data.
• Deep understanding of machine learning popular tools and frameworks.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.