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Product Design Engineer - iPhone

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Cupertino, California), Hybrid (San Diego, California)$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Apple is seeking a product design engineer with strong mechanical design skills to lead projects, build prototypes for design validation, drive failure analysis, and work on-site at contract manufacturers to enable product at scale for iPhone development.

Responsibilities

  • - Design tight tolerance components for prototype systems, development of test infrastructure, and characterization of components and assembly processes.
  • - Build prototypes for design validation and drive failure analysis.
  • - Lead projects in a multi-functional setting and communicate with vendors in Asia and internal teams at Apple.
  • - Deliver outstanding design solutions while balancing multiple priorities on demanding schedules.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of mechanical design experience using a variety of fabrication processes
  • 3+ years of consumer electronics design experience with large multidisciplinary teams
  • Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals (heat transfer, mechanics of materials, precision fabrication)
  • Understanding of tight-tolerance fabrication and assembly techniques, mechanical drawing composition (functional dimensioning and tolerance stack-up analysis)
  • Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA) and statistical tolerance analysis techniques
  • Strong proficiency in Siemens NX (components, assemblies and drawings)
  • Experience with metrology and interpreting/deriving insights from FAI data
  • Experience working with electrical engineers to layout and build custom PCBs/FPCs
  • Experience owning parts at various production stages and engaging with vendors to yield successful parts/assemblies
  • Bachelor’s or Masters degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline

Skills

Required:Mechanical designSiemens NX
Nice to have:DFM/DFAMetrology/FAI data analysisPCB/FPC layout collaboration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Potential discretionary bonuses or commission
  • Relocation assistance
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Discretionary employee stock units and stock ownership opportunities
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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