Accessory Product Design Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple’s Accessories Product Design team works across a variety of product categories, guiding projects from early architecture explorations through mass production. The Product Design Engineer will conceive, design, and help bring products to life, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define requirements, resolve technical challenges, refine designs, and achieve project goals. The role calls for strong mechanical design fundamentals, close collaboration, excellent communication, and the ability to deliver design solutions while balancing multiple priorities on demanding schedules.

Responsibilities include designing parts and assemblies using CAD, building prototypes, validating performance, and pursuing continual design improvements. As designs mature, the engineer will partner with vendors, contract manufacturers, internal teams, and cross-functional engineering disciplines to optimize designs for function, manufacturability, and cosmetics at scale. The role also includes reviewing test results, conducting failure analysis, driving corrective actions, supporting module and system-level builds, and traveling internationally up to 20%.

Requirements

• B.S. in mechanical engineering, Product Design, or a comparable field.
• 3–5 years of experience in Product Design or equivalent.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD and creating 2D drawings.
• Fluency with mechanical engineering fundamentals.
• Varied knowledge of materials and manufacturing methods.
• Experience building prototypes or fabricating parts.
• Knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. in mechanical engineering, Product Design, or a comparable field.
• 5+ years of professional mechanical engineering or Product Design experience.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Extensive experience in 3D CAD and creating 2D drawings.
• Experience designing consumer electronics, PCBs, and/or flexes.
• Familiarity with high-volume mass-production processes and challenges.
• Experience working and coordinating with different cross-functional engineering disciplines.
• Direct experience with injection molding, CNC, stamping, forming, and/or welding.
• Capability with tolerance analysis and/or geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience working with overseas manufacturers.
• Familiarity with finite element analysis (FEA).

Responsibilities

• Design parts and assemblies using 3D CAD and create 2D drawings.
• Build proof-of-concept prototypes and fabricate parts.
• Conduct technical analysis of design performance and validate prototypes.
• Create and present slides covering technical work and design status.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and achieve project goals.
• Work with external vendors, contract manufacturers, and internal teams to optimize designs for function, manufacturability, and cosmetics.
• Review test results, conduct failure analysis, and drive corrective actions.
• Support module- and system-level builds.
• Travel internationally up to 20%.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level