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Product Design Engineering Lead - Beats

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (Cupertino, CA), Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA)$216.2k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Beats Accessories Product Design team seeks a senior product design engineer to lead mechanical design from concept through mass production, bridging industrial design intent with manufacturable, reliable hardware across the full product lifecycle and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Concept & Definition: Drive early-stage prototyping, explore form factors, and define feature sets in close collaboration with industrial design, product management, and engineering leadership.
  • Detailed Design: Own detailed design of metal and plastic components — enclosures, brackets, fasteners, and structural elements — ensuring designs meet aesthetic, functional, and manufacturing requirements.
  • Tolerance & Reliability Analysis: Perform tolerance stack-up analysis, finite element analysis (FEA), and failure analysis to validate structural integrity, fit, and long-term reliability.
  • Systems Integration: Integrate and coordinate mechanical design across multiple subsystems, including acoustics, display, input devices, power electronics, and wireless antennas — ensuring cross-functional compatibility and performance.
  • Build & Manufacturing Oversight: Travel to and oversee prototype and production builds at contract manufacturers in China; work directly with vendors and factory teams to troubleshoot design and process issues on the line.
  • Production Ramp Support: Support products through EVT/DVT/PVT and into mass production, resolving field and line issues, driving corrective actions, and ensuring design intent is preserved at scale.
  • Mentorship: Guide and develop junior and mid-level mechanical engineers, providing technical direction, design reviews, and career mentorship.

Qualifications

  • BS
  • 8+ years of mechanical/product design experience, ideally in consumer electronics or similarly complex hardware products.
  • Proven track record shipping at least one (ideally multiple) high-volume consumer products from concept to mass production.
  • Strong CAD skills (SolidWorks, Creo, NX, or similar) and experience with FEA tools (ANSYS, Abaqus, or built-in CAD FEA modules).
  • Deep knowledge of metal and plastic manufacturing processes (CNC machining, sheet metal, injection molding, die casting) and their design constraints (DFM/DFA).
  • Hands-on experience with GD&T, tolerance stack-up analysis, and reliability/failure analysis methodologies (root cause analysis, DOE, 8D, etc.).
  • Experience working directly with contract manufacturers in China, including on-site build support and vendor management.
  • Familiarity with integrating mechanical design around electro-mechanical subsystems (acoustics, displays, input devices, batteries/power electronics, antennas).

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation assistance (potential)
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan and discretionary RSU awards
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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