Apple is looking to enable new product categories and enhance existing product lines by using soft materials, requiring a product design engineer to bring Apple's engineering and precision to products made of these materials.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in production part design utilizing a variety of engineering materials.
- Good engineering fundamentals (beam bending, free body diagrams, GD&T, etc...).
- 3D and 2D CAD skills (NX preferred).
- Experience using spreadsheets to analyze engineering data using statistics (FAI/CPK, tolerance analysis).
- Experience engaging with manufacturers.
- Creative problem solving, with experience in failure analysis, root cause investigation, and DOE creation.
- Knowledge of soft goods materials (synthetics, leather, adhesives).
- Knowledge of soft goods assembly process (bonding, cutting, stitching).
Responsibilities
- conceive, design, validate, and launch exciting new products
- define CAD, create drawings, and collaborate with vendors to produce these parts
- perform engineering analyses on your designs using appropriate methods such as hand calculation, computer simulation, FEA, dimensional tolerance analysis, and statistical evaluations
- assemble early prototypes
- travel to China to support engineering builds
- solve problems on the assembly line
Other
- Solid verbal and written presentation skills (Keynote or Powerpoint).
- BS in Mechanical Engineering
- MS degree in Engineering.
