Packaging Product Design Engineer

The Packaging Product Design Engineer within Apple’s Packaging PD team designs and drives structural packaging solutions for Apple products. This role supports packaging that helps protect products in transit while contributing to the company’s customer experience and sustainability objectives.

Role Focus

The Packaging PD team designs and executes structural packaging for all Apple products, spanning packaging shippers through finished goods boxes. The engineer in this position is responsible for packaging product design and execution across the packaging design process.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and execute structural packaging for all Apple products, including shippers and finished goods boxes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams across the design process, including Industrial Design, Marketing, Environmental, Operations, and others.
• Assist engineering build activities by identifying root causes for failures and proposing solutions to issues that affect build progress.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of related industry experience.
• BS degree with an emphasis in Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Science, or a related industry.
• Experience working with 3D and 2D CAD.
• Strong engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to travel up to 20% to support engineering build activities, including root cause analysis for failures and solutions for issues impacting build progress.

Preferred Qualifications

• Innovative thinking and high personal motivation.
• Flexibility and comfort working in a quickly changing environment.
• Effective verbal and written presentation skills.
• Prototyping experience.
• Data-driven design approach to complex problems.
• Experience across the design cycle from concept to manufacturing in mass production.
• Knowledge of material science and FEA.
• Knowledge of fiber-based materials.

Tools and Technologies

• 3D CAD
• 2D CAD
• FEA

Location and Work Model

Cupertino, CA (onsite).

Compensation

Salary range: USD 184,700 - 324,800 per year. Base pay is one component of Apple’s total compensation package, with the base pay range for this role between $184,700 and $324,800.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation (discretionary; eligibility may apply).

Equity Opportunity

Apple employees may be eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.