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Exploratory Design Scientist Platform Architecture

Apple


Job Location:

Cupertino, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 8 November 2026 (15 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 5 February 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what you could accomplish. Multifaceted inquisitive people and inspiring innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet As a member of our dynamic group you will have the outstanding and phenomenal opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and encourage millions of Apples customers every single Exploratory Design Labs (XDLabs) has openings for experienced device experts with broad knowledge of the experimental foundations of physical computing to help develop technological concepts and prototypes that shape what the next generation products ought to have from a technology perspective. Working with a diverse cross-functional team you will use your deep knowledge of device structure physics and fabrication to lead a team to design model and prototype subsystems that accelerate key aspects of future generations of consumer electronic devices. You must embrace uncertainty and ambiguity in outcomes and still have the ability to push through and inspire team members to get to solutions.

In this role you will collaborate with domain experts to conceive model and evolve emerging concepts and devices for future Apple systems. Leveraging a broad foundation across electronics optics physics and engineering you will build a deep quantitative understanding of how optical devices interact with computational systems. You will play a key role in the full Ru0026D lifecycle moving from theoretical device modeling to the physical design prototyping and characterization of these advanced systems.

Conceive analyze model optimize and evolve new and emerging concepts and devices for future Apple broad knowledge across electronics optics physics and engineering along with device modeling skills to understand and optimize optical and computational system in the hands-on design prototyping and characterization of resulting devices and plans and technical results effectively through team meetings written reports and presentations to wider teams and learn and adapt to new technical concepts and methodologies as required by the research environment.

BS in optoelectronics/electromechanical optomechanical or similar engineering designing fabricating and characterizing devices and/or systems and running time-sensitive high-risk in electronic devices and optical devices modeling and designing concepts and systems around them for computing and/or other modeling electronic and optical devices operating within systems.

20 years of relevant industry in an electro-optical or nanoscale-devices or material-science-of-devices related understanding of the physics and principles of device design and ability to exercise sound technical judgment with imperfect information; ability to operate at the right level of depth for every to communicate efficiently and productively with technical working with external partners while still carrying out innovation that stays within the organizationnProven experience of leading teams while still possessing the technical depth to be an individual contributor when record of learning new fields and taking on new challenges.

Required Experience:

Staff IC


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