Job Details

Engineering Project Lead

Cupertino, California, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Jun 27, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200609433

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Drive the daily activities to meet overall program objectives and focus on processes within product definition and engineering design cycles. Identify multi-functional design dependencies
and risks, including managing several parallel path developments such as high-risk high reward and conservative, and low-risk paths and driving data-driven selection checkpoints. Define and document design trade-offs, for example, considering and picking a battery chemistry option to meet a product requirement. Influence and negotiate project architecture and design
with System teams and within the Battery team to ensure proper scoping. Develop and drive project schedules specific to New Product Introduction by following the Apple-defined development flow to create a detailed development plan outlining deliverable owners, expected completion milestones, and task dependencies. Identify and engage multi-functional
engineering partners for product definition decisions by studying development options and taking into account performance, schedule, cost, and resource implications for each option. Enable the development efforts by crafting and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process. Identify and direct all resources required to execute successful projects. Facilitate
communication and collaboration across engineering functions and operations. Brief project status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors up to executive management. International Travel Required 5%. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $162,019 - $205,500/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering Management, Engineering Science, Mathematics or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

• 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required:

• Experience developing comprehensive project plans, allocating resources, identifying risks, creating mitigation strategies, and managing challenges to ensure project success.

• Experience setting performance expectations, providing constructive feedback, and conducting regular performance evaluation to support the professional development of team members.

• Experience developing strategic plans aligned with organizational objectives, identifying opportunities for growth and improvement, and anticipating future challenges.

• Analyzing complex problems, gathering relevant data, and synthesizing information to generate actionable insights and inform decision-making processes.

• Developing project budgets, tracking expenditures, and implementing cost-saving measures to ensure projects are delivered within financial constraints.

• Experience with PCB SMT and DFM process.

• Experience in safety certification standards such as UL and TUV, including developing batteries with certification requirements, understanding the certification process, and managing its the logistical aspect.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

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