Josh Nickel
XR Tech and AI Workflow leadership @ Meta | Ex-Apple Wireless Engineering | Startup advisor and investor
- Role
- Investor & Advisor at Throughput.Ai
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Josh Nickel
Seasoned consumer electronics org leader with track record building nascent global engineering teams of 30+ with top talent profiles. Responsible for architecture, roadmapping, design and delivery of high-volume products including mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, AR/VR, medical, and wearables. Skillsets and scope: End-to-end wireless subsystems, batteries, audio subsystems, sensors, mixed-signal silicon, custom silicon packaging, haptics, cameras/vision systems, cellular carrier certification, and manufacturing & testing at scale. Output in billions of devices, including 2 generations of Oculus VR headsets, Ray-ban smart glasses, and 10 generations of iPhone, iPad, AirPods, Apple Watch, portables/desktops, and developing cost-reduced customized assembly, automation, and testing across Tier 1 and 2 ecosystem partners.
Experience
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
Penn State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering
1993 — 1997
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering
1997 — 2001
Skills
- Electronic Instrumentation
- Pcb Design
- Integrity
- Spice
- Hardware Architecture
- Design for Assembly
- Optoelectronics
- Engineering
- University Teaching
- Antenna Design
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Smart Antennas
- Power Integrity
- Electronics Packaging
- Computational Electromagnetics
- Instrumentation
- Optics
- Radio Frequency (Rf)
- Management
- Smartphones
- Cst Microwave Studio
- Antenna Measurements
- Product Management
- Signal Integrity
- Project Management
- Test Automation
- Engineering Management
- Nanotechnology/Carbon Nanofibers
- Agilent Ads
- Tablets
- Emi
- Semiconductors
- Emc Design
- Microwave Engineering
- Testing
- Design for Manufacturing
- Analog
- Professors
- Product Development
- Embedded Systems
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