Camera & Photos Hardware Operations Engineer

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Cupertino, CA
Salary: $175,500–$311,700 / yr
Posted: 72 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $244k

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Camera & Photos Hardware Operations Engineer

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As a Camera & Photos - Hardware Operations Engineer, you will join the Camera team to serve as the critical link between global supply partners and internal engineering teams. You will manage the end-to-end coordination of hardware requests, ensuring that engineers have the specific configurations needed to develop and validate next-generation camera capabilities. Your daily responsibilities include forecasting demand, identifying constraints, managing priorities across multiple stakeholders, and resolving delivery issues to unblock workflows. To succeed, you must possess skills in project management, procurement, lead times, configuration management, and distribution. You will also be responsible for developing fulfillment processes and communicating status updates to leadership. This role operates within the camera product area, focusing on the technical challenge of aligning hardware planning and distribution across multiple geographies to support advanced image processing and computer vision features.

Skills

Hardware Lifecycle Management Procurement Configuration Management Capacity Planning Resource Allocation Program Management Distribution

What you'll do

Coordinate end-to-end hardware requests between global supply partners and internal engineering teams.
Forecast hardware demand and identify constraints to proactively unblock engineering workflows.
Manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholder teams for hardware allocation.
Track and resolve hardware delivery issues while escalating blockers as necessary.
Communicate hardware status, timelines, and risks to leadership and engineering teams.
Develop and maintain processes for hardware request intake, tracking, and fulfillment.
Align with cross-functional teams across multiple geographies on hardware planning and distribution.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Familiarity with hardware lifecycle management, including procurement, lead times, configuration management, and distribution.
Project or program management experience.
Prior experience in a lab or hardware operations environment.
Experience coordinating across global supply chain and internal operations teams.
Experience tracking and managing hardware requests across multiple stakeholders.
Experience with forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
Strong communication, organizational skills, and attention to detail.