Apple

Product Design Engineer - Apple Vision Pro

Apple$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics Engineering or similar field
  • 6+ years of product or mechanisms design experience
  • Proficient in CAD design, FEA analysis, GD&T, and DFM
  • Experience with external vendors and DFM challenges
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Creative problem-solving skills with failure analysis experience

Responsibilities

  • Own module/subsystems design and reliability analysis
  • Develop and execute validation plans for products
  • Design custom test fixtures for product testing
  • Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across engineering and design
  • Interface with suppliers for component quality and delivery

Benefits

  • Health and wellness programs
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Employee discount on Apple products
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth
  • Collaborative and innovative work culture
Full Job Description
Description

The Vision Product Group (VPG) is a team of passionate engineers who are designing, prototyping, analyzing, and launching the next generations of new products at Apple.

As a system product design engineer, you will be given ownership over a module/subsystems within the product and will be responsible for the analysis, assembly, and reliability of these parts.

In addition to product design, this effort will include the development and execution of validation plans, the design of custom test fixtures, and collaboration with outside suppliers.

You will engage in frequent multi-disciplinary collaboration with teams like Electrical Engineering, Reliability, Testing, DFM, SW, Industrial Design, Project Management, Materials, Manufacturing, Ergonomics and more.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics Engineering or similar

6+ years of hands-on, detailed product design or mechanisms design experience

Knowledge in one or more of these disciplines: design for consumer electronics and wearables or mechanisms development

Strong design and analysis skills including CAD design, FEA analysis, GD&T, tolerance analysis, DFM etc.

Practical experience working through DFM challenges with external vendors

Experience with vendor FAI/CPK dimensional reports

Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including emails, preparing slide presentations, and presenting technical concepts to multi-disciplinary teams

Creative problem solving, with experience in challenging failure analysis, root cause investigation, and DOE creation

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in mechanical engineering or similar field

Fluent in Unigraphics NX including surfacing tools, statistical software (JMP), MacOS

Experience designing mechanisms, actuated systems, and machines (selection and sizing of passive or active/electro-mechanical components including motors and sensors)

Experience working through entire product cycle including shipping product experience especially in consumer electronics, robotics, automotive or aerospace

Ability to conceptualize, design and build test fixtures to validate designs

Understanding of science of tribology (friction, wear, lubrication) and setting up test/characterization, and validation of mechanisms

Experience taking designs through product development cycle from concept development to production bring up.

Detail orientated and capable of handling multiple assignments at once

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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Net Income
$63.9 billion
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1976
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