Product Design Engineer - Battery
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. Additional responsibilities include:
• 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
- Design and 3D CAD experience
- Experience with multiple part assemblies
- MS
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Experience with precision parts, consumer electronics or PCB design
- Ability to generate detailed designs with multi-functional teams, including drawings, tolerance analysis, GD&T, and engineering reviews
- 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
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