Apple
Product Design Engineer - Core Systems
$129K–$225K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted May 14, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred qualifications include 3+ years of mechanical design experience using a variety of fabrication processes and 3+ years of consumer electronics design experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering or related discipline; a master’s degree is preferred.
About the job
Design and validate mechanical parts for Apple Watch products, collaborating across teams and with vendors to deliver manufacturable designs and analyze failures.
What you'll do
- Build prototypes for design validation and drive failure analysis.
- Lead mechanical design projects with cross-functional teams and vendors.
- Develop mechanical parts for Watch products across sizes and materials.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering or a related discipline.
- Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals, including heat transfer and mechanics of materials.
- Understanding of tight-tolerance fabrication and assembly, mechanical drawings, functional dimensioning, and tolerance stack-up analysis.
- Experience with DFM, DFA, statistical tolerance analysis, CAD and drawings (GD&T), FEA, and statistical tools.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience with consumer electronics design, fabrication processes, Siemens NX, metrology, vendors, or integrating PCBs, flexible circuits, and batteries.
Pay
$129,300 and $225,300 USD base salary
Tools
CAD, GD&T, FEA, Siemens NX, PCBs, FPCs
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