Product Design Engineer-Accessories

In Accessories Product Design you will directly interface with many system teams from Mac to Audio to Vision and everything in-between. You will leverage your experience with wire harness design and support system teams with sizing, routing and manufacturing both harness and internal cable solutions in the most efficient and elegant ways possible. Use your creative intellect to drive the next generation of technologies into our harness designs all while balancing functionality with size, reliability, cost, cosmetics and environmental goals.

Create engineering requirement documents
Advise system teams on best practices and options for wiring, harnessing, shielding and connectors
Size wiring per signal integrity requirements
Review and support Design for Manufacturing (DFM) documentation
Support module and system level builds
Review test results and drive failure analysis and corrective action support
Travel of approximately 5-10% to Asia

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
3 years of mechanical design experience
1+ yrs of work directly involved in the design and production of wiring harnesses or cabling.
Proficiency in 3D CAD and creating 2D drawings.
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including presenting technical data to multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience with designing injection and/or compression molded parts.

3 years of mechanical design experience on wiring harness assemblies over the entire design cycle from architecture to production.
Understanding of how to size wires, select connectors, and shielding to meet signal integrity and/or power requirements.
Experience with designing sheet metal parts and electronics packaging.

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Join our Accessories Product Design team and drive the future of external and internal wired data and power transmission across multiple systems and stand-alone products. We are a dynamic group that leads new product introduction from the architectural phase through production ramping. We work collaboratively with many groups from Industrial Design to Reliability to Technical Program Management and Hardware engineering. Leave your mark on future Apple products.

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