System Product Design Engineer

Apple • Cupertino, CA

3d • $184,700 - $277,600

About The Position

Apple Inc. is hiring a System Product Design Engineer in Cupertino, California, and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. The role refines and executes Apple product designs in collaboration with industrial designers and product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups. Responsibilities span initial product layouts; concept generation, prototyping, demonstration, and testing to support design down-selection; and design optimization for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability in partnership with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams. The engineer performs stress, tolerance, and failure analyses to ensure designs meet requirements throughout their lifecycle and supports factory builds in Asia. Domestic and international travel of 20% is required. The position is 40 hours per week.

The base pay range is $184,700–$277,600 per year. Apple employees may participate in discretionary stock programs, including restricted stock unit awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, and reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to career advancement at Apple. The role might also be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation, 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 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 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 designers and product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups.
• Develop initial product layouts.
• Generate concepts, prototype, demonstrate, and test designs to drive down-selection.
• Optimize designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability 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 use statistical methods including RSS and Monte Carlo.
• Apply heat-transfer principles to thermal architecture designs.
• Provide front-line factory support and evaluate root-cause failure analysis.

Benefits

• Discretionary restricted stock unit awards.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the opportunity to purchase Apple stock at a discount.
• Comprehensive medical coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing a career at Apple.
• Potential eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
• Potential eligibility for relocation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time