Are you looking to push the limits of what's considered feasible? As part of our Battery Engineering group, you'll aid us in crafting creative battery solutions that deliver more energy in smaller spaces than ever before. We work across subject areas to transform hardware elements into a single, integrated design. Join us, and you'll help innovate new battery technologies that continually outperform the previous iterations. By collaborating with other product development groups across Apple, you'll push the industry boundaries of what batteries can do and improve the product experience for our customers around the world! As the NPI Mechanical/Product Design resource for our systems; we own module development from initial system architecture through ramp. In this role you will apply your mechanical design engineering skills and ability to lead the end-to-end mechanical development and integration of innovative modules into next generation Apple products.
The Battery Pack Product Design team is responsible for the mechanical design and integration of battery packs into Apple products. In this role, you will design a battery pack, optimizing across teams including outside vendors and internal experts to realize creative solutions and validate designs.
Creative problem solving including spatial reasoning, optimization to find best solution to design challenges, attention to detail
Engineering fundamentals are applied in design analysis
Designs realized through tolerance analysis, design for assembly/manufacturing, design reviews and cross functional optimization
Communicate designs through detailed, cross functional design reviews
Drive failure analyses and design of experiments (DOEs) to develop design solutions and implement corrective actions
Release of drawings and revision controls
Travel up to 20% throughout the year
BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related
Experience with 3D CAD
15 years relevant industry experience
Master's degree or equivalent job-related experience in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
Ability to generate innovative designs with multi-functional teams, including detailed written specifications, drawings, and tolerance analyses.
Experience in Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, or statistical tolerance analysis techniques
Clear and concise communication skills for technical status of projects cross functionally and throughout management structure. High degree of motivation, curiosity, and attention to detail
Demonstrated ability to deliver to product timelines
Experience in design cycle from concept through MP with high-volume manufacturing processes and/or automation, including design validation and characterization
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.