Join a team where Softgoods Engineering uses textiles and soft polymers to elevate Apple’s product lines and support new technologies. Based in Boulder, CO (onsite), you will lead the design work that helps define Softgoods architectures and bring soft, highly functional products to life for categories including Vision Pro, AirPods Max, HomePods, and more.
What you’ll do
You’ll lead a Softgoods Engineering design role focused on developing and shipping Softgoods products that customers will notice for both performance and feel. This work includes building the underlying architecture, guiding design from concept through execution, and creating prototypes with Apple’s Industrial Design team.
- Define Softgoods architectures and design, and develop and ship Softgoods products.
- Design and build prototypes in partnership with the Industrial Design team.
- Collaborate with engineers and scientists across Apple to create Softgoods products for Vision Pro, AirPods Max, HomePods, and other new product categories.
- Apply design experience and intuition to refine architectures and deliver products from concept to shipping.
Why Softgoods Engineering
Softgoods Engineering specializes in textiles and soft polymers with a mission to use these materials to enhance Apple’s existing product lines and enable new technologies. Work happens in customized labs where teams design, engineer, and develop products. Softgoods materials and assembly processes differ from traditional engineering materials and manufacturing methods, and the role includes learning how to integrate electrical and mechanical components into Softgoods to create products that are both breathtaking and highly functional.
Requirements
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
- 3+ years of product design with extensive CAD experience.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to a multi-disciplinary team.
Preferred qualifications
- MS Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
- NX experience.
- Previous Softgoods and/or wearables product design.
Tools you’ll use
Compensation and benefits
Salary: USD 134,700 - 203,000 per year.
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and free services
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple
- Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
- Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
- Can purchase Apple stock at a discount via the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation (where eligible)
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