System Product Design Engineer **Cupertino, California, United States** **Hardware** **Summary** Posted: **Sep 11, 2025** Role Number: **200619869-0836** Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. **Description** APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Refine and execute the design of Apple products while collaborating with industrial designers, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups. Develop initial product layouts, by generating concepts, prototyping, demonstrating and testing to drive down-selection. Optimize designs for function, cosmetics, and manufacturability through partnership with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams. Perform stress, tolerance, and failure analyses to ensure design meets requirements throughout its lifecycle. Support factory builds in Asia. Job requires 20% international and domestic travel. 40 hours/week. 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 $147,400 - $220,900/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. PAY & BENEFITS: 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. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program. **Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or a related field. + Experience and/or education must include: + Working with common manufacturing techniques including CNC, PCB, MIM, Plastic injection molding, thermoforming, and compression molding. + Working with GD&T for efficient datum and dimension schemes to balance design tolerance and manufacturability + Managing vendors in global supply chain to align DFM, process, and quality requirements. + Designing and building high fidelity prototypes to validate thermal, mechanical, and flow-acoustic response. + Performing statistical analysis using JMP, MATLAB, or Python. + Working with common consumer-electronic device technologies and balancing product integration and technology requirements for high-volume manufacturing. + Performing tolerance analysis leveraging GD&T and statistical methods including RSS and Monte Carlo. + Working in large assembly 3D CAD environment + Selecting designs and materials for a variety of rigid, viscoelastic, and composite materials + Applying the first principle of heat transfer to thermal architecture designs + Providing front line factory support and evaluating root cause failure analysis **Preferred Qualifications** + N/A Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. 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