Apple

Product Design Engineer - iPad

Apple • $120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
  • 3+ years experience designing mechanical components for high volume manufacturing.
  • Ability to travel up to 15-20% max throughout the year.
  • Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals: statics, strength of materials, material science, and statistics.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Design intelligence including mechanical intuition and spatial reasoning.

Responsibilities

  • Negotiate and collaborate cross-functionally with various departments to refine product vision.
  • Develop deep technical knowledge in various domains to assist design and problem-solving.
  • Collaborate with vendors and manufacturing experts to optimize designs for functionality and aesthetics.
  • Utilize 2D and 3D CAD tools to communicate design intent and specifications.
  • Ensure product fit, form, and function through various analyses and testing methods.
  • Participate in failure analysis to improve product reliability.

Benefits

  • Work in a dynamic, startup-like environment with support from a major hardware company.
  • Join a committed team focused on fairness and diversity.
  • Collaborate with top engineers and technology experts in the field.
Full Job Description
In this highly visible role, you will utilize your mechanical design engineering skills to bring products to market. This includes the following: Negotiating and collaborating cross functionally with various departments, such as Industrial Design, Product Integrity, EE, Manufacturing, SW, and technology groups to refine and execute the vision for the product Developing deep technical knowledge in areas outside your realm of expertise to understand other teams' design constraints and craft creative solutions to technical problems Collaborating with outside vendors and internal manufacturing experts to optimize designs for function, aesthetic, and manufacturability Utilizing 2D and 3D CAD to communicate design intent and inspection requirements Ensuring fit, form, and function throughout the life of the product through stress and tolerance analysis, DFMEA, prototyping, testing, and failure analysis. Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent 3+ years experience designing mechanical components for high volume manufacturing - specifically injection molded parts, sheet metal components, die-cast and machined parts. Ability to travel up to 15-20% max throughout the year. Engineering Fundamentals: statics, strength of materials, material science, statistics. Flexible design skills: tolerance analysis, design for assembly/manufacturability, electro-mechanical integration, simple fixture design, design for high volume manufacturing, developing initial product layouts, understanding of Statistical Process Controls (SPC), understanding of metrology (basic knowledge of measurement systems), mechanism design. Excellent communication skills: both written and verbal, ability to clearly communicate design ideas, contribute to brainstorms. Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent High degree of motivation, curiosity, passion and creativity. Design intelligence: mechanical intuition, creative problem solving, spatial reasoning, diligence in finding the best solution for each design challenge, attention to detail. Computer aided design (CAD) Skills: 3D CAD experience required - NX preferred, 2D drafting and GD&T preferred. Experience in the design cycle from concept through manufacturing a plus.

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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154,000 employees
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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