Product Design Engineer - Apple Vision Pro

Role Number: 200633140-3956

Summary

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something. Apple Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space. It will allow us to do the things we love in ways never before possible — all while staying connected to the people around us!

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