Packaging Product Design Engineer

Austin, TX (onsite) Packaging Product Design Engineer role focused on creating structural packaging that protects Apple products in shipping, supports a strong customer experience, and advances sustainability goals. You will partner across teams throughout the design process, bringing engineering fundamentals and CAD capability to packaging that spans from shippers to finished goods boxes.

The Packaging PD team designs and executes structural packaging for all Apple products. The work includes improving outcomes for shipping reliability while continuously learning about packaging design, manufacturing processes, and sustainable materials. If you enjoy exploring new ideas and bringing fresh perspectives into established workflows, this team is a strong fit.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute structural packaging for all Apple products, from shippers through to finished goods boxes.
• Collaborate with multiple teams during the packaging design process, including Industrial Design, Marketing, Environmental, Operations, and others.
• Support engineering build activities by investigating failures, identifying root cause, and developing solutions for issues that block build progress.

Requirements

• BS degree with an emphasis in Mechanical Engineering or Packaging Science.
• Experience working with 3D and 2D CAD.
• Strong engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to travel up to 20% to support engineering build activities, including finding root cause for failures and solutions for issues that impede build progress.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of related industry experience.
• 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 with the design cycle from concept to manufacturing in mass-production.
• Knowledge of material science and FEA.
• Knowledge of fiber-based materials.

What You’ll Bring to the Work

Approach problem solving with passion, creativity, and curiosity. You will have opportunities to learn new packaging design and manufacturing skills, and to improve your knowledge of sustainable materials. The role also values innovative thinking, including influences from outside the standard packaging industry to drive new ideas in creative ways.

Technologies: 3D CAD, 2D CAD