# Sr. Optical Safety Engineer

At Apple, great ideas become great products, services, and customer experiences, faster than anywhere else. The Product Safety Engineering group within Apple's Product Integrity organization ensures that every Apple product meets the highest global safety standards while enabling the kind of innovation our customers trust and expect. We are seeking a technically rigorous and collaborative optical safety engineer to serve as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for laser and LED product safety. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge photonics engineering and global regulatory compliance - you will own the safety strategy for optical systems across Apple's consumer and professional product lines, from early-stage design review through certification and mass production. If you have deep expertise in IEC 60825-1 and IEC 60825-2, a passion for building safety into products rather than checking boxes at the end, and the communication skills to lead cross-functional alignment at every level of the organization, this role was built for you. Description Apple's optical systems, spanning lasers, LEDs, structured light, time-of-flight sensors, and fiber-optic communication co

- **Id**: 3716645
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-sr-optical-safety-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:53:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T07:34:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

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- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 829
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Design of Experiments** — Optional: no
- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T00:56:26Z

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- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 37; Filings 12m: 6350; Filings prev 12m: 6527; Green card filings 12m: 37

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- **Reasons**: conf:2, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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