Packaging Compliance Engineer
Apple
Software Engineering, Legal
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 143,100-264,200 / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 27, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200596675
Apple's Environmental Technologies team is seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented Packaging Compliance Engineer with strengths in data collection, data analysis, effective communication and strong abilities to cut through ambiguity and manage complexity. In this role, you will validate Apple packaging designs to upcoming and existing packaging regulations through testing and analysis, inform advocacy work, and develop compliance plans. This role requires you to closely partner with many cross functional teams, including packaging and logistics, to implement worldwide environmental compliance requirements and standards. We reduced the plastic content in our product packaging to only 3% in 2024 — down from 21% in 2015! Come be a part of the team that helped make this happen!
Description
This position is offered in Apple's Environmental Technologies group within Apple's Hardware Engineering division. Our mission is to deliver world-leading programs to address the impacts of climate change, conserve resources, and utilize safer materials in our products. As a Packaging Compliance Engineer, you will be responsible for driving Apple’s environmental compliance on packaging. A successful candidate will need to - partner with a wide range of engineering, design, and operations teams to establish and achieve ambitious environmental and regulatory objectives - collaborate with regulatory compliance teams to understand upcoming and existing requirements and inform advocacy priorities - effectively translate regulatory requirements into relatable actions for packaging designers - collect and analyze diverse sets of complex data to deliver comprehensive compliance assessments on thousands of products - be comfortable navigating ambiguity and conflicting priorities to arrive at an agreed upon course of action, as well as be willing to commit and deliver on a decision. If you love collaborating with a wide range of people and are excited to grow your expertise in the rapidly developing regulatory environment, we would love to have you.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Science or Policy
- 3+ years working on environmental compliance and standards
- Experience managing, organizing and driving deliverables of complex projects with tight timelines
- Happy to meet in the early morning to accommodate European colleagues
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters or PhD in Engineering, Science or Policy
- Comfortable in environments where relationship-building and persuasion are key to successful outcomes
- Excellent communication skills — written and verbal with diverse audiences, from engineers to executives. Adaptable to both collaborative and independent work settings
- Thrives in fast-paced environments where attention to detail and quality are required
- Strong technical background in packaging and packaging materials
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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