Mechanical Engineer

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 dedication to leave the world better than we found it! To help us with this, we are looking for an exceptional multi-disciplined engineer with a mechanical design focus, while having great practical and modeling skills. You will join an international team and work on revolutionary hardware development projects to help us explore new technologies. The position entails working the Zurich hardware technology incubation team in a work environment of excellence, creativity, innovation. We are an agile and multi-disciplinary team forming part of the wider Apple Hardware Technology organization. With significant lab space, we are pursuing ground-breaking hardware development, realize early prototypes to enable future products and features that enrich the lives of our customers. You will work on prototype development, beginning with initial hand calculations, progressing through 3D CAD, FEA and finally to realization. You will be able to perform initial technology feasibility analysis by identifying top challenges and evaluate using first principles. There is a strong practical focus in our hardware incubation team, so hands-on experience and a willingness to prototype new ideas is essential. With your experience in design for manufacturing, you will be responsible for early fabrication concepts and process tooling. Your drive and motivation, self-starting attitude will help us to explore new technologies, realize technology concepts, while involving teams around the globe.