Apple
Product Design Engineer - iPhone
$142K–$278K
Cupertino, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Location
- Cupertino, California
San Diego, California - Experience
- 3+ years of mechanical design experience and 3+ years of consumer electronics design experience.
About the job
Designs and validates mechanical components and processes for iPhone prototypes, then supports integration and production scale-up at contract manufacturers in India.
What you'll do
- Design tight-tolerance components, develop test infrastructure, and characterize components and assembly processes.
- Build prototypes for design validation and drive failure analysis.
- Work with internal teams and vendors, including on-site implementation and integration at contract manufacturers in India.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of mechanical design experience using a variety of fabrication processes.
- 3+ years of consumer electronics design experience on complex products with large multidisciplinary teams.
- Understanding of engineering fundamentals including heat transfer, mechanics of materials, precision fabrication, tight-tolerance fabrication and assembly, mechanical drawings, functional dimensioning, and tolerance stack-up analysis.
- Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and statistical tolerance analysis techniques.
Nice to have
- Strong proficiency in Siemens NX; metrology and FAI data interpretation; experience with electrical engineers on custom PCBs/FPCs; vendor and production-stage part ownership.
- Bachelor’s or Masters degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline.
Pay
$142,300 and $263,300 (USD, base salary); $150,400 and $277,600 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Siemens NX, PCBs, FPCs
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