System Product Design Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple Inc. is hiring a System Product Design Engineer in Cupertino, California, and various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. The role refines and executes Apple product designs in collaboration with industrial design, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups. The engineer develops initial product layouts, generates concepts, builds prototypes, and demonstrates and tests designs to support down-selection. The role optimizes designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability in partnership with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams. It also involves stress, tolerance, and failure analyses to ensure designs meet requirements throughout their lifecycle, as well as factory-build support in Asia. Domestic and international travel of 20% is required. The schedule is 40 hours per week.

The annual base pay range is $184,700–$277,600. Apple also describes discretionary stock awards and an employee stock purchase plan, medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, and reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition. The role might also be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation. Benefits and compensation are subject to applicable eligibility requirements and plan terms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Experience and/or education working with common manufacturing techniques, including CNC, PCB, MIM, plastic injection molding, thermoforming, and compression molding.
• Experience and/or education working with GD&T for efficient datum and dimension schemes that balance design tolerance and manufacturability.
• Experience and/or education managing vendors in a global supply chain to align DFM, process, and quality requirements.
• Experience and/or education designing and building high-fidelity prototypes to validate thermal, mechanical, and flow-acoustic response.
• Experience and/or education performing statistical analysis using JMP, MATLAB, or Python, and leveraging GD&T and statistical methods including RSS and Monte Carlo.
• Experience and/or education working with common consumer-electronic device technologies and balancing product integration and technology requirements for high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience and/or education applying first principles of heat transfer to thermal architecture designs.
• Experience and/or education working in a large-assembly 3D CAD environment.
• Experience and/or education selecting designs and materials for a variety of rigid, viscoelastic, and composite materials.
• Experience and/or education providing front-line factory support and evaluating root-cause failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Refine and execute Apple product designs in collaboration with industrial design, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups.
• Develop initial product layouts.
• Generate concepts, build prototypes, and demonstrate and test designs to drive down-selection.
• Optimize designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability in partnership with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams.
• Perform stress, tolerance, and failure analyses to ensure designs meet requirements throughout their lifecycle.
• Support factory builds in Asia.
• Manage vendors in the global supply chain to align design-for-manufacturing, process, and quality requirements.
• Design and build high-fidelity prototypes to validate thermal, mechanical, and flow-acoustic response.
• Perform statistical analysis and evaluate root-cause failure analysis while providing front-line factory support.

Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in discretionary employee stock programs, including restricted stock unit awards.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the option to purchase Apple stock at a discount.
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to career advancement at Apple.
• Possible eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• Possible relocation assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time