Hardware Product Design Engineer (Mac)

Quick Facts

• Role: Hardware Product Design Engineer (Mac)

• Focus: Detailed hardware product design—from concepts to prototyping, testing, and factory build support

• Travel: Up to 20% in Asia

Description

Collaborate with industrial designers and cross-functional engineering groups to refine and execute the hardware product design. Develop initial product layouts, generate and down-select concepts through prototyping and testing, and optimize designs with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams. Ensure designs meet requirements across the lifecycle using stress, tolerance, and failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with industrial designers and engineering teams to refine and execute product design

• Develop initial product layouts

• Generate concepts, prototype, demonstrate, and test to drive down-selection

• Partner with external vendors and internal manufacturing teams to optimize function, cosmetics, and manufacturability

• Perform stress, tolerance, and failure analysis to ensure design meets requirements across the lifecycle

• Travel up to 20% in Asia to support factory builds

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

• 10+ years experience in a mechanical engineering role

• Strong engineering fundamentals: solid mechanics, material science, heat transfer, mechanism design, and manufacturing

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly communicate design ideas and contribute to brainstorms

• Genuine curiosity

• Collaborative and receptive to feedback

Benefits

Strengthen skills in tolerance analysis, GD&T, design for assembly/manufacturability, metrology, fixture design, computer-aided design, statistical process control, and failure analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer electronic design

• Experience designing for mass production

• Sense of ownership