Apple's Transducer Design team needs a Product Design Engineer to design and validate custom speaker modules for their space-constrained products, aiming to improve audio performance and quality.
Requirements
- Mechanical design experience generating 3D CAD and 2D drawings is required (NX experience is preferred)
- Ability to achieve sophisticated geometry by understanding and influencing tooling design
- Experience designing and selecting materials for mass produced injection molded plastic parts, progressively stamped metal parts, and the assembly processes that bring these parts together
- Experience in the consumer electronics industry working with small or micro electromechanical assemblies
- Proactive problem solving, including the development of reliability test plans and conducting root cause analysis
- Capable of working with global suppliers and guiding actions in assembly and part production facilities
- Ability to use dimensional data to inform part design decisions including: conducting tolerance stack analysis, applying GD&T to 2D drawings, establishing datums, understanding measurement techniques, analyzing data, identifying issues from dimensional data, and guiding part quality improvements
Responsibilities
- Design and validate custom speaker modules for Apple’s highly space-constrained products.
- Lead the mechanical design of speaker module assembly and their components.
- Generate 3D CAD and 2D drawings for speaker modules from scratch for all components, including: plastic enclosures, metal stampings, insert molded electrical connections, over-molded seals, magnet system subassemblies, and more.
- Partner with Transducer Design Engineers and system Product Design Engineers to balance tradeoffs between acoustic performance, mechanical design, manufacturing, and reliability.
- Contribute to improvements in the acoustic performance and reliability of the speaker modules by pursuing innovative ideas that bring the module to the limit of what’s possible.
- Develop new design approaches, explore different assembly methods, introduce new materials, and implement new manufacturing processes.
- Ensure speaker components and modules can be manufactured in high volumes without issues, while meeting performance specifications.
Other
- Most of our engineers have degrees in Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent field, but if you’ve followed a different path to expertise in mechanical design and engineering, we still want to hear from you
- Handle multiple projects at the same time while working with multiple suppliers.
- Timely modifications to address design issues without impacting project schedule.
- Iterating on the design, developing test plans, generating reliability specifications, performing failure analysis, and conducting experiments (DOEs) to find design solutions and implement corrective actions.
- Ability to work with global suppliers
