Touch Sensing Product Design Engineer

You will own the end-to-end design, development and validation of sensing technology into Apple’s portfolio of products. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to generate design concepts, and as the mechanical expert you will be responsible for engineering analysis and documentation for your segment of the project.

• Identify design tradeoffs and risks to choose viable paths forward.
• Apply good experiment design and the scientific method to reduce design risk early.
• Run tolerance studies to ensure designs are feasible over manufacturing tolerances.
• Drive processes to meet Apple’s high cosmetic standards.
• Support external manufacturing vendors with process development and root‑cause analysis during prototyping and validation phases, including international travel (10–20%).
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to understand and execute on critical integration, performance, and reliability requirements.
• Partner with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams to optimize designs for function, manufacturability, and cosmetics.
• Ensure designs meet requirements throughout their life cycles by performing stress, tolerance, and failure analyses.
• Analyze data generated from builds and design-of-experiments.
• Perform tolerance analyses to predict performance of mechanisms, sensors, and cosmetics.
• Mechanical design development in 3D and 2D.
• Create specifications, detailed design, and 2D documentation of parts and assemblies.
• Electrical component and module integration.
• Build proof‑of‑concept and prototypes, then test and analyze.

• High‑volume, consumer electronics or sensing experience is a plus.
• Siemens NX CAD fluency.
• High‑volume/mass‑production development experience.
• FEA modeling experience with any major CAD software system.
• Hands‑on experience with 3D printers, CNC mills, lathes, and/or other hand‑fabrication methods.
• Experience in GD&T, tolerance analysis, statistical analysis, and design of experiments.
• BS degree and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.

• Solid understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals (materials properties, solid mechanics, beam statics, Newtonian physics, thermodynamics).
• 3D CAD experience is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to craft clear engineering documentation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse team members and external vendors to achieve project goals.
• Bachelor’s degree (minimum).

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