Product Design Engineer - Watch
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Job overview
The Product Design Engineer will join Apple’s WATCH design team to define and design future wearable products. The team designs the Watch’s mechanical parts across sizes and materials, along with its metal mesh, metal link, and rubber bracelets. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring products to life and will travel internationally 15% or more.
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Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200583201-3543
Summary
Be an integral part of a small and visible team of world-class Mechanical Engineers making Apple’s first wearable product line. Define and design the future of WATCH. As a member of the WATCH design team, you will build the next generation of the world's most advanced wearable device. You will work closely with cross-functional teams like Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Antenna, Reliability, Sensors, Environmental, and Marketing to bring future products to life. The WATCH Product Design team is responsible for all of the mechanical parts that make up the Watch in all sizes and materials, as well as the metal mesh, metal link, and rubber bracelets.
Description
This position will require international travel (15%+). You will go beyond the industry norm and demonstrate creativity in problem solving, ability to think dynamically and outside of standard convention, and adapt quickly to new technical areas. We promote innovation and new technology to further improve Apple's hardware performance and user experience. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and a multitude of groundbreaking Accessories. We have done the same with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. The same passion for innovation that goes into products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product.
Minimum Qualifications
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BSME
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3+ years in detailed part and product design
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CAD and drawings (GD&T)
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Plastic and metal part design
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Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly
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Analytical and problem solving skills as applied to Mechanical Engineering
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Working knowledge of FEA
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Application of statistical tools and techniques
Preferred Qualifications
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MS preferred
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3-7 years in detailed part and product design
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Strong materials knowledge
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Mass-production
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Experience working with overseas manufacturers
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 7,686 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$129–180K/yr1,058 salary ranges
- California median$45–55/hr40 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,338 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in California and 7,686 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (6,392 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 5,272 of the 7,686 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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