Apple

Haptics Engineering Program Manager

Apple$135K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in STEM field (e.g. EE, ME, Physics) and 3+ years relevant experience
  • Product development experience with consumer electronics or electronic hardware
  • Curiosity and familiarity with AI tools to enhance engineering workflows
  • Willing to travel internationally (annually)
  • Preferred background in optical sensing hardware design or related project management

Responsibilities

  • Lead communication among mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams
  • Define program plans, schedules, and budgets
  • Prepare and present updates for executives
  • Coordinate engineering development builds with suppliers and partners
  • Drive risk management and conflict resolution within projects
  • Adapt to unexpected program changes effectively
  • Promote continuous improvement through best practices

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative team environment
  • Opportunity to influence user experience in high-profile consumer products
  • International travel opportunities with accommodations
  • Engagement in pioneering technology that shapes the future
  • Professional growth through involvement in cutting-edge projects
Full Job Description
The Haptics team builds the ground-breaking Taptic Engine, a critical component of the iPhone, Watch, and Pencil Pro customer experience. In this critical and highly visible role, you will manage projects involving the design, integration, and launch of haptic solutions.

You will leverage your engineering background to manage program execution from technology or feature concept to mass production and launch. This is a highly collaborative environment where you will lead cross-functional teams and define program plans and schedules. You will bring teams together, align them on goals, and resolve conflicts to provide Apple customers with the best user-experience in the industry. Come, join us in crafting solutions the world doesn't know of yet!

Description

- Lead and drive communications and alignment between multi-functional teams including mechanical, electrical, process, reliability, software, and firmware engineering

- Define and communicate program plans, schedule, and cost/budget

- Deliver executive communication/presentations and drive the decision-making process

- Manage engineering development builds, working with process teams, operations partners, and suppliers/vendors to create new sensing subsystems

- Ensure engineering excellence and help drive smart risk taking through logical and balanced decisions

- Identify and resolve risks, conflicts, interdependencies, and program issues

- Navigate unexpected changes in the program due to outside influences

- Drive continuous improvement: Look for patterns, offer best practices, and implement change

Minimum Qualifications

BS in STEM field (e.g. EE, ME, Physics, etc.) and +3 years relevant experience

Product development, engineering, or program management experience shipping consumer electronic systems, semiconductor, or other electronic hardware

Curiosity about and familiarity with AI tools-with interest to apply them to improve engineering and program workflows

Ability and willingness to travel internationally (typically once per year; accommodations available as needed)

Preferred Qualifications

Relevant industry experience designing optical sensing hardware or project management relevant experience in a similar field.

Knowledge of electro-mechanical systems

Advanced engineering degree

Excellent communication, organizational and leadership skills

Experience using AI agents to automate complex design and validation processes

Confident in delivering technical data with ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience

In-depth technical engineering knowledge to effectively establish and manage project and operational KPIs, assess and drive technical risks, and critically challenge engineering decisions.

Proven ability to effectively manage multiple global contract manufacturers and vendors.

Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of uncertainty

Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities

You should be able to fit in well with a team, understand capabilities and priorities while, cultivating a team environment.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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$63.9 billion
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1976
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