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Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

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Location
Sunnyvale, CA
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Job overview

The Advanced Manufacturing Engineer innovates precision assembly and measurement processes and drives improvements in equipment yield, efficiency, and speed. The role contributes to design-for-manufacturing, process development, and assembly tolerance analysis for technically complex opto-electronics modules, affecting their design, cost, and quality. The posting requires at least three years of relevant experience, a BSME or equivalent, and travel of approximately 30–35%.

Skills & qualifications

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Skills

Precision AssemblyInspectionAutomation Equipment DesignAutomation Equipment QualificationTolerance AnalysisMachine Qualification RequirementsDesign of ExperimentsFailure AnalysisCalibrationCorrelationCapability AnalysisRepeatability and ReproducibilityCommunicationNew Product IntroductionManufacturing OperationsCost ReductionProject ManagementEngineering DesignGD&TNXSolidWorksProEOptics PrinciplesCCD Cameras2D and 1D LasersRoboticsPneumaticsServo MotorsMotion ControllersPLCPC-Based Control SystemsJMPMinitabSix Sigma

Qualifications

3+ Years Precision Assembly ExperienceBSME or Equivalent30-35% Travel7+ Years Engineering Experience

Full job description

Role Number: 200692706-3956

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, we believe new ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

Description

Responsible for innovating precision assembly and measurement processes, and driving continuous improvement in equipment yield, efficiency, and speed. Key stakeholder in design-for-manufacturing, process development, and assembly tolerance analysis. This work directly impacts the design, cost and quality of new, technically complex opto-electronics modules.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in precision assembly, inspection and automation equipment design and qualification

  • Ability to travel approximately 30-35%

  • BSME or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

  • 7+ years in an engineering role with experience in precision assembly, inspection and automation equipment

  • Required to understand and build tolerance analysis for parts and assemblies

  • Knowledgeable in crafting machine qualification requirements, design of experiments and failure analysis

  • Understands machine qualification including calibration, correlation, capability, repeatability and reproducibility

  • Able to communicate effectively in a worldwide environment

  • New product introduction and Manufacturing Operations experience desired

  • Proven track record of cost reduction, project management and engineering design required

  • Working knowledge of GD&T principles favorable

  • NX, SolidWorks CAD or ProE experiences a plus

  • Knowledge of optics principles as they relate to CCD cameras, 2D and 1D lasers, and their use for positioning and critical alignment machines

  • Working knowledge of robotics (6-axis and/or SCARA), pneumatics, servo motors, motion controllers, PLC and and PC-based control systems

  • JMP, Minitab & Six Sigma experience preferred

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 5,699 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$120–175K/yr952 salary ranges
  • California median$46–55/hr40 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,107 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs in California and 5,699 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Manufacturing Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (4,499 postings).
Education
3,152 of the 5,699 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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