# Matt Casebolt

> Senior Director of Product Design, Apple and Beats

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mattcasebolt

I am dedicated to creating and driving top-tier engineering teams to produce elegant and purposeful designs. I enjoy diving deep into problems and reducing them to first principles. Leading by example, I am a hands-on engineer named on 200+ patents.Specialties:Product development and execution. Failure analysis. The leadership of cross-functional teams. Creating meaningful solutions that stay true to the customer.Portfolio includes:Beats iPhone cases, Beats Cables, Apple Pencil (USB-C), Beats Earbuds and Headphones, HomePod, HomePod2, HomePod Mini, AppleTV w/Siri Remote, Beats Audio, MacBook Pro W/Force Touch, MacMini, MacPro, MacBook Pro W/Retina, MacBook AirTesla Model 3, Tesla Model Y, Tesla Roadster 2

## Work Experience
### Senior Director of Product Design, Home and Beats @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Present | California, United States

### Director of Engineering @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, CA

### Director, Product Design @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cupertino, CA
Leading engineering teams responsible for designing Macintosh computers, and embedded input devices.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

### Senior Manager, Product Design @ Apple
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino, CA

### Manager, Product Design @ Apple
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Cupertino, CA

### Sr. Director of Engineering, Body, Exteriors, Lighting, and Closures @ Tesla
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA

### Sr. Director of Engineering, Closures & Mechanisms @ Tesla
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA

### Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Product Design @ Apple Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Cupertino, CA

### Director of Hardware Engineering @ Rackable Systems Inc.
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 | Milpitas, CA
Lead team to design large-scale server clusters for e-commerce and internet search engines.

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ AMD
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 | Sunnyvale, CA
Managed design team to produce quad-core Opteron based reference design server.

### Mechanical Engineering Manager @ VA Linux Systems
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | Fremont, CA
Designed servers and server rack solutions.

### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Acorn Product Development
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Fremont, CA
Worked with clients to understand their requirements, and my internal engineering teams execute to the plan. Projects included small form factor desktop computer, point of sale payment and inventory device, networking appliances, and compute servers.

### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Metricom
Jan 1994 – Jan 1998 | Los Gatos, CA
Designed compact consumer portable wireless modems and wide area network radios. Experience includes die-casting, injection molding, and patch and dipole antenna design.

### Design Engineer @ Lockheed Space Systems Antenna Products
Jan 1989 – Jan 1994 | Sunnyvale, CA
Designed numerous antennas and deployment mechanisms for satellite communications. Areas of experience include composites panel structures, ceramics, antenna transmission lines, and phased arrays.


## Education
### BSME in Mechanical Engineering
San José State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattcasebolt

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Last updated: 2026-04-13