Senior Manufacturing Design Engineer-Enclosure Parts

Shanghai Metro Area Shenzhen Metro Area Until 9/22/2026 15+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, innovative ideas have a way of quickly becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. This is where individual imaginations and experiences gather together that leads to great work. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourages the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it! Mechanical/ Enclosure components (such as the housing) define the look, feel and expression of Apple’s globally recognized industrial and product design. Manufacturing Design Engineer (MDE) work in concert with operations, supply quality, and tooling as well as Apple’s Product Design and Industrial Design teams. Together, these teams execute and scale both new and existing manufacturing processes, materials, technologies, finishes and form factors.

Description

In this highly hands-on role, you will enjoy the key decision-making combined with the on-site problem solving and process set up for the best products in the world today. You will look after the process development, qualify the equipment and automation, set up the systems for state of art designs in a cosmetically fast paced environment.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor degree or above in Mechanical Engineering and / or relevant manufacturing field
15+ years engineering work experience
Fluent English and Mandarin
Program leadership capability
Ability to travel 50% (mainly in Asia area)

Preferred Qualifications

Experiences of process technical development including (or very familiar with some of) CNC, Polishing, Consumable material wheels/sandpapers industry, Blasting media, Chemical Treatment, Cleaning, laser application, Automation, etc.
Experiences in developing customized machine (non-standard machine) in 3C industry, including the following areas (but not limited to): CNC machines, Polish equipment, Robot application, Cosmetic / dimension inspection equipments, Roughness and Texture Control, etc.
Understand clearly how to apply problem solving within experiments design, root cause analysis and statistical process control.
Very Familiar with GD&T, DOE, SPC. 15+ years relevant working experience, esp. in 3C industry.
Working experience for Al/ML experience.
Good analytical skills, and capacity to reason on articulated issues.
A team player who is self-motivated, results oriented and detailed oriented. Ability to influence across multiple functional teams.
Drive innovations and demonstrate strong process development acumen.
Flexibility to adapt dynamic and rapidly changing environments.

About this role

Summary

Lead process development and setup for manufacturing Apple enclosure components.

Job title

Senior Manufacturing Design Engineer-Enclosure Parts

Experience level

15+ years

Minimum experience

15+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou; remote not specified.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

mechanical engineeringprocess technical developmentCNCGD&TSPC

Preferred skills

automationrobot applicationcustomized machine developmentAl/ML

Specializations

mechanical designprocess developmentautomationCNCGD&T
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site

Unknown location

On-site

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

On-site City