Apple iPad Product Design Team is looking for a mechanical design engineer to bring products to market by refining and executing the product vision, optimizing designs for function, aesthetic, and manufacturability, and ensuring fit, form, and function throughout the product lifecycle.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience designing mechanical components for high volume manufacturing - specifically injection molded parts, sheet metal components, die-cast and machined parts.
- 3D CAD experience required - NX preferred, 2D drafting and GD&T preferred.
- Experience in the design cycle from concept through manufacturing a plus.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- tolerance analysis
- design for assembly/manufacturability
- electro-mechanical integration
Other
- 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
- Interested in traveling up to 15-20% max throughout the year.
- Excellent communication skills: both written and verbal, ability to clearly communicate design ideas, contribute to brainstorms.
- 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.
