Apple
Product Design Engineer - iPhone
$129K–$195K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of mechanical design experience and 3+ years of consumer electronics design experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Masters degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline (preferred).
About the job
Designs and validates mechanical components and assembly processes for iPhone prototypes, then supports integration and manufacturing scale-up at contract manufacturers in India.
What you'll do
- Design tight-tolerance components for prototype systems; 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 at contract manufacturers in India, to implement and integrate iPhones for production at scale.
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.
- Solid understanding of heat transfer, mechanics of materials, and precision fabrication.
- Understanding of tight-tolerance fabrication and assembly, mechanical drawings, functional dimensioning, tolerance stack-up analysis, DFM, DFA, and statistical tolerance analysis.
Nice to have
- Strong proficiency in Siemens NX; metrology and FAI data analysis experience.
- Experience with electrical engineers on custom PCBs/FPCs, production-stage part ownership, and vendor engagement; bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline.
Pay
$129,300 and $194,700 (USD, base pay range)
Tools
Siemens NX, PCBs, FPCs, DFM, DFA, FAI
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