Ian St. Louis

Resume

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Experience

  1. 2023 – now

    Senior Product Design Engineer

    Apple: Vision Products GroupCupertino, CA

    • Leading product design for display systems on Apple Vision AR/VR.
    • 10 patent filings, 2025 – 2026.
  2. 2020 – 2023

    Product Design Engineer

    Apple: iPhone and Apple Watch DisplaysCupertino, CA

    • Led architecture, design, and reliability performance for iPhone 13 mini and Apple Watch Ultra 2 displays.

    Internships: Mechanical Engineer, iPhone and Apple Watch Displays

    1. Summer 2019

      • Designed a robust hardware and software package for instrumented dynamic impact testing of displays.
    2. Summer 2018

      • Developed an electro-opto-mechanical fixture for 6-axis, sub-micron, programmatic alignment of a device.
    3. Jan – Aug 2017

      • Drove failure analysis and designed experiments to determine the root cause for the highest risk display issues faced during iPhone 8/8+ development.
      • Directed a study to evaluate the parameter-space, effectiveness and vendor-side application of new methods to test fracture strength of OLED passivation on Series 2, 3, and next-gen Apple Watch displays.
      • Analyzed SPC data and implemented corrective actions for process deviations on iPhone 8/8+ display builds.
      • Built a widely used application to drastically improve engineers' efficacy in synthesizing FAI/SPC build data.
  3. Jan 2016 – 2017

    Bio-inspired Robotics Researcher

    UC Berkeley CiBER Lab: Dr. Robert FullBerkeley, CA

    • Led the construction, design, programming, testing and documentation of an under-actuated robot as part of a research project to mimic the mobility and dynamic turning of lizards.
    • Designed robot in SolidWorks, programmed in Arduino. Constructed using a laser-cutter and ProJet 3D printer.
  4. Summer 2016

    Engineering Intern

    Leidos: Surveillance and Reconnaissance DivisionSan Diego, CA

    • Developed pseudo-data generation algorithms in MATLAB and Python as an alternative to cross-validation, to provide a robust method of determining a machine learning classification algorithm's error on new data.
    • Executed spectroradiometric tests, thermal calculations and analysis, 3D modeling, FEA and presentations to iteratively design printed circuit boards for demanding military vehicular application.

Projects

  1. Jan – May 2018

    Built to Tilt

    Senior Capstone Project: ME 102B

    • Derived analytical models, wrote electromechanical component code, and drove the assembly design and fabrication for a beautifully intricate, survival-based arcade game.
  2. Spring 2016

    1st Place: Large-scale Water Condenser Design

    UC Berkeley-wide $12k WaterSEER Design Competition

    • Led a team of five to the 1st place prize, driving the creation of a proof of concept design for a device which passively condenses water from the air.

Education

  1. 2014 – 2019

    University of California, Berkeley

    M.S. Mechanical Engineering
    Dec 2019
    B.S. Mechanical Engineering
    Dec 2018

Skills

Core competencies

  • Product design
  • GD&T
  • CAD
  • FEA
  • Drafting
  • DFMEA
  • DFM
  • Fixture development
  • Instrumented mechanical testing
  • Statistical process control & data analysis
  • CLI development

Software

  • NX
  • MATLAB
  • JMP
  • ANSYS
  • LabVIEW
  • AutoCAD
  • Instron