About the Role

Do you love utilizing your creativity, spatial reasoning & attention to detail to collaboratively solve design challenges? The Apple Data Center Product Design Engineering team works with other engineering groups to seamlessly integrate technology into the next generation of Apple's Server and Storage Hardware. We apply a genuine sense of curiosity and a dedication to innovative design to develop Apple's industry-leading, large-scale server and storage hardware architectures. Our team's culture is centered around rapid iteration with open cross-functional feedback and healthy debate to curate the best outcomes.

As a Data Center Product Design Engineer, you will support development of systems from chip to server to rack. Your role will be to engineer products from concept to production in order to produce the most energy efficient, cost effective, and scalable designs possible!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with system architects, product integrity, hardware, software, and technology groups to define, refine, and execute on the design of the product
• Develop initial product layouts, generate concepts, prototype, demonstrate & test to drive decision-making
• Create specifications for design partners to implement
• Partner with external vendors & internal subject matter experts to optimize designs for performance, security, cost, service and manufacturability
• Ensure designs meet requirements throughout their lifecycle by performing stress, tolerance, and failure analyses
• Work closely with our data center operations team, security, and safety teams to ensure that designs meet or exceed our existing standards and agreements

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years Mechanical Engineering experience in the design of server, storage, and Hyperscale data center products
• Strong engineering fundamentals: solid mechanics, material science, heat transfer, mechanism design, manufacturing
• Experience with the server mechanical development cycle from prototyping to high volume manufacturing
• Experience working with JDM vendors to create components and assemblies for prototyping
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: ability to clearly convey design ideas and requirements within the team and to cross-functional partners and vendors
• A strong sense of ownership and drive for excellence
• Ability to engage in healthy collaborative debate and a keen analytical mindset
• Ability to travel up to 20% in North America and Asia to support factory builds

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Experience with the following server design areas: sheet metal design, soft and hard tooling, PCBA mechanical design, silicon integration, heatsinks and thermal interfaces, fans, cable and connector construction, rail kits, racks, cable management hardware, and design for assembly and repair
• Experience with Unigraphics NX CAD modeling software
• Understanding of packaging design and testing at a system and rack level
• Working knowledge of structural analysis and FEA
• Experience with tolerance analysis, statistical process control, metrology and simple fixture design
• Working knowledge of mechanical testing methodologies including Instron, strain gauge, accelerometer, fit and function validation
• Experience with failure analysis; strong logical reasoning skills and methodical approach to finding root cause

Equal Opportunity

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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.