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Product Design Engineer - Mac

AT Apple
Apple

Product Design Engineer - Mac

Austin, TX

Summary

Posted: Feb 15, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200538261

Do you love utilizing your creativity, spatial reasoning & attention to detail to collaboratively solve design challenges? The Mac Product Design team works with other engineers and designers to seamlessly integrate technology into the next generation of portable and desktop computers. We apply a genuine sense of curiosity and dedication to delivering truly innovative and relevant products that enrich our customers' lives. We want you to join our cohesive and diverse family of Product Design Engineers to do the most impactful work of your life. In this role, you will ideate concepts, design down to the details, prototype & test, and travel to assembly sites to optimize the design.

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Description

Collaborate with industrial designers, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups to refine & execute on the design of the product. Develop initial product layouts. Generate concepts, prototype, demonstrate & test to drive down-selection. Partner with external vendors & internal manufacturing teams to optimize designs for function, cosmetics and manufacturability. Ensure design meets requirements throughout its lifecycle by performing stress, tolerance, and failure analyses. Travel up to 20% in Asia to support factory builds. Skills you will strengthen on the job: tolerance analysis, geometric dimensioning & tolerancing, design for assembly/manufacturability, designing for high volume manufacturing of injection molded, die cast, sheetmetal, and machined parts, metrology, simple fixture design, computer aided design, statistical process control and failure analysis

Minimum Qualifications

  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
  • Engineering fundamentals: solid mechanics, material science, heat transfer, mechanism design, manufacturing

Preferred Qualifications

  • Genuine curiosity
  • A sense of ownership
  • Collaborative & receptive to feedback
  • Excellent communication skills: both written and verbal, ability to clearly communicate design ideas and contribute to brainstorms

Additional Requirements

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  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, USA
Job ID: apple-200538261-9
Employment Type: Other

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