# Rhett Gentile > Product Design Lead Engineer at Apple Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rhettgentile I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… lines down due to counterfeit adhesive delamination, polycarbonate fracturing due to brass-catalyzed hydrolysis… all these lessons… learned… like a best practices handbook… Time… to be a senior engineer… ## Work Experience ### Product Design Lead @ Apple Jan 2022 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States Leading the design of the next generation of MacBook Portables! As lead, I've shipped: 2023 15" M2 MacBook Air 2025 14” M5 MacBook Pro 2026 14" and 16" M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro Redesigned and ran the Mac Intern program from 2020-2023, creating new org structure, documentation, and opportunities for participants. Metrics! Resources! Legibility! Man, I did it all. ### Product Design Engineer @ Apple Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Cupertino Working on product design for the Mac product family Shipped: 2018 21" and 27" iMac: Small Parts Various and Sundry 2019 13" MBP: MLB + Thermal Module 2020 27" iMac: Mics, Light Sensor, Housing 2021 14" and 16" M1 MBP: Speakers, Mics, PCM Process 2023 15" M2 MBA: Antenna I also currently run our intern program, from hiring to onboarding to development. So I also shipped the FY'23 intern class! ### Operations Manager @ AmberBox Gunshot Detection Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area -Overseeing installation teams across the continental United States -Coordinating purchasing, delivery, and price negotiations for entire supply chain across three continents -Managing multinational engineering team -Developing internal documentation for installations and general operations procedures -Collaborated with engineering team and clients to develop improvements for new versions of our gunshot detectors ### SBE Intern @ Apple Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 - Responsible for the delivery and bringup of specialized manufacturing equipment - Investigated, qualified, and employed new equipment for inspection of surface finish, significantly expanding inspection capacity - Performed surface characterization using state of the art digital metrology equipment - Developed both manual and automated surface finishing rework techniques ### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Infinite Uptime Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area -Designed and manufactured housings for networked machine tool monitoring sensors -Parametrically modeled sensor package and housing in SolidWorks to enable rapid layout changes -Developed waterproofing testbed for IP67 rating -Listed as inventor on founding patent #PCT/US2016/059441 for mechanical design ### Production Manager @ WayTools Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Space Engineering Research Center Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Developing miniaturized air bearing test platforms, investigating novel methods of satellite docking. ### Production Manager @ NextEngine Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Monica, California I was tasked with the production and analysis of a first-run production of prototypes before tooling was completed in overseas factories. I recruited and managed a production team, analyzed failures and bottlenecks in the production process, and revised procedures to minimize build time and failure rate. Additionally, I designed an extension arm to retrofit existing scanner systems for new optical configurations. ### Research Assistant @ Theoretical and Applied Fluids Lab Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | UC Berkeley Internship through the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP). I conducted literature searches and analyzed competing patents and technologies for hydraulic wave power generators. I also machined parts for testing apparatuses and assisted in their construction and calibration. Additionally, I built a scale model of the current wave carpet design for a conference presentation at MIT. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### High School Harvard-Westlake Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhettgentile --- Source: https://flows.cv/rhettgentile JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rhettgentile/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07