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Input Device Product Design Engineer

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Cupertino, CA)Full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Mechanical design engineer role focused on bringing Apple input devices (e.g., keyboards, Apple Pencil interactions, iPad keyboard line) to life by collaborating across teams to define product vision, explore form factors, optimize kinematics, integrate mechanisms and sensors, and ensure manufacturability and reliability through analysis and prototyping.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborating with industrial designers, hardware, software, product integrity, and technology teams to define the vision of a product.
  • Exploring multiple product form factors and developing new product architectures.
  • Defining kinematic behaviors to support ergonomic optimization.
  • Integrating mechanisms, sensors, and other electromechanical components.
  • Partnering with internal manufacturing teams and external vendors to optimize designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability.
  • Ensuring design meets requirements through the life of the product through stress and tolerance analysis, DFMEA, prototyping, testing, and failure analysis.

Qualifications

  • 2+ yrs experience in a mechanical engineering design role.
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or closely-related major.
  • Solid engineering fundamentals: statics, strength of materials, kinematics and mechanism design, and manufacturing.
  • Traveling ~10-15% of the year internationally to support engineering build activities.
  • Great communication skills: written and verbal, with the ability to clearly communicate design ideas and contribute to brainstorms.

Skills

Required:Mechanical designKinematic analysis
Nice to have:DFMEA
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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