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Audio Product Design Intern

Apple· Hardware
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ShanghaiinternshipPosted 4mo ago

About the role

Internship role in Apple’s Audio Product Design team focusing on conceiving, designing, testing, and bringing to production audio products that redefine the music experience. Collaboration with multiple cross-functional teams and vendors across engineering, design, operations, and marketing.

Responsibilities

  • Support build activities, including finding the root cause for failures and solutions for issues that impede build progress.
  • Building prototypes to validate function, manufacturability, and reliability.
  • Analyze data generated from builds and design of experiments.
  • Participate in design reviews to generate and receive constructive feedback.
  • Perform tolerance analyses to predict the performance of mechanisms, sensors, and cosmetics.
  • Create specifications, detailed design, and 2D documentation of parts and assemblies.
  • Work with operations teams to evaluate and develop supply chains capable of manufacturing new subsystems and products.
  • Interacting with vendors to develop manufacturing processes and tooling concepts.

Qualifications

  • In the process of getting BS/MS degrees from the Engineering department in decent universities
  • Internship duration >= 6months. Can start anytime after October 1, 2026
  • Highly motivated to explore electronics product design.
  • Ability to travel to vendors during weekdays.
  • Fluent Mandarin and English communication skills.
  • Experience of working with many different international teams or OEM/ODM vendors.
  • Hands-on experience of solving problems with engineering knowledge (material mechanics, statics, fluid dynamics, etc.) and tools.
  • Deep understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to apply concepts to new problems not listed in engineering textbooks.
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to apply statistical tools and techniques to real-world problem solving.
  • Post-processing knowledge for plastic and metal parts, including assembly and fixture design.
  • Industry experiences from medical, consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace, and other fields with relevant technology and development models.
  • Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, and geometric tolerancing.
  • Experience with component modules (Audio drivers, batteries, power supplies, camera modules, etc.)
  • Design of audio subsystems (microphone, speaker, receiver)
  • Experience of using AI tools in previous programs for solving engineering problems.

Skills

Required:Root cause analysisPrototype developmentDesign reviewsTolerance analysis2D documentationDFM/ DFA
Nice to have:Statistical tools
Last updated Jun 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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