Product Design Engineer, Home

Do you love utilizing your creativity, spatial reasoning & attention to detail to collaboratively solve design challenges? The Home Product Design team works with a broad range of world class engineers and designers to develop future products.

We apply a genuine sense of curiosity and dedication to delivering innovative products that enrich our customers' lives.

We want you to join our cohesive and diverse team 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 see designs come to life. Join us!

Key Qualifications

• Genuine curiosity, a proven appreciation of, and desire to understand, how products work.

• A strong sense of ownership.

• Collaborative, inclusive & receptive to feedback

• Strong Engineering fundamentals: mechanics, material science, heat transfer, mechanism design & manufacturing.

• Solid communication skills, both written and verbal, ability to clearly communicate design ideas and contribute to brainstorms.

• 2+ years experience in full time mechanical design engineering role.

Description

• Collaborate with industrial designers, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups to refine & complete 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.

Education & Experience

At least B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design or similar.

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $138,900.00 and $256,500.00, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.