Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, Watch
Apple· Operations and Supply Chain
Hybrid (Hanoi)Full-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Role focused on technology development, design for manufacturability, and support for mass production of sophisticated assemblies. Collaborates across cross-functional teams and suppliers to improve cost, quality, and delivery of Apple products, with opportunities to learn and apply knowledge across mechanical design, manufacturing processes, testing, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Supports manufacturing research and development to solve complex problems that have a direct impact on the final product cost, quality, and delivery of Apple products.
- Under broad goals and objectives, exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in suggesting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions to complex problems.
- Provides assistance to set up standard practices and independently resolves impact to design approaches and parameters to the final product.
- Applies extensive expertise in all facets of mechanical product design.
- Provides advice, guidance, and resources to other engineering groups and project leaders as well as factory technicians.
- Supports a variety of projects and participates in the project planning of major sub-projects.
- Keeps abreast of all relevant technical trends and developments and incorporates them in appropriate assignments.
- Supports software solutions used to scale, secure and shape the automated assembly and test systems used to manufacture Apple products.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional Apple teams, vendors, and contract manufacturers to define factory systems requirements, architecture, and design.
- Maintain and improve existing visualization and statistical analysis programs that provide intelligent business insights.
- Performs assignments in several of the following manufacturing engineering functions: Design for Manufacturability; Product Engineering; Process Engineering.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, majors in Mechanical/Electrical / Computer Science engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager or Engineering Lead role.
- Proven track record of cost reduction, project management, and engineering design required.
- Understand and build product/automation machine/manual alignment fixtures tolerance stack-ups (GD&T principles) according to 3D files (@ both assembly & part level).
- Fluent in written and spoken English (Priority), Vietnamese or Chinese.
Skills
Required:Mechanical designGD&TProduct/automation fixture developmentCommunication across cross-functional teams
Nice to have:Data analysis and DOEStatistical analysis / visualization
Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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