System Product Design Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

102d • $147,400 - $220,900

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Refine and execute the design of Apple products while collaborating with industrial designers, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups. Develop initial product layouts, by generating concepts, prototyping, demonstrating and testing to drive down-selection. Optimize designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability through partnership with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams. Perform stress, tolerance, and failure analyses to ensure design meets requirements throughout its lifecycle. Support factory builds in Asia.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience with common manufacturing techniques including CNC, PCB, MIM, Plastic injection molding, thermoforming, and compression molding.
• Experience with GD&T for efficient datum and dimension schemes.
• Managing vendors in global supply chain to align DFM, process, and quality requirements.
• Designing and building high fidelity prototypes to validate thermal, mechanical, and flow-acoustic response.
• Performing statistical analysis using JMP, MATLAB, or Python.
• Working with common consumer-electronic device technologies.
• Performing tolerance analysis leveraging GD&T and statistical methods including RSS and Monte Carlo.
• Working in large assembly 3D CAD environment.
• Selecting designs and materials for a variety of rigid, viscoelastic, and composite materials.
• Providing front line factory support and evaluating root cause failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Refine and execute the design of Apple products.
• Collaborate with industrial designers, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups.
• Develop initial product layouts by generating concepts, prototyping, demonstrating, and testing.
• Optimize designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability.
• Perform stress, tolerance, and failure analyses.
• Support factory builds in Asia.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition.
• Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards.
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree