Lead Systems Integration Engineer - AirPods

Summary: At Apple, new ideas can quickly transform into amazing products, services, and customer experiences. Sound is an essential facet of that experience, and we are committed to making a difference through innovative electronic design. Our team owns the electronics inside small form-factor audio products — pushing the boundaries of physical architecture, wireless and silicon technologies.

The AirPods System Integration team turns these ambitions into shipping hardware. We are looking for a technical leader who holds the bar high — someone with a sharp eye for design detail, high standards for their own work, and the influence to bring the whole team up with them.

If you love building things, raising the quality of every design that ships, and working on products that millions of people wear every day, come help lead the next generation of AirPods!

Description: You will set the technical direction for system electrical engineering on an AirPods program — anchoring architecture decisions, raising the bar on how the team designs and validates hardware, and making sure the toughest calls get made with rigor. You will be a force multiplier for the engineers around you — unblocking, enabling, and elevating their work and a trusted voice across engineering, manufacturing, and leadership.

Key Responsibilities: Lead the electrical architecture of an AirPods program — anchoring partitioning, power, wireless, and silicon integration decisions from concept through mass production

Raise the technical bar through rigorous design and validation reviews, high personal standards, and by codifying best practices the team can reuse

Mentor and technically guide a team of EEs — unblock hard problems, grow depth across the group, and hold the design-review bar

Own the challenging technical calls end-to-end — drive cross-functional trade-offs across silicon, RF, power, audio, sensor, mechanical, software, and manufacturing to a durable outcome

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