# Rui He

> Product Design Lead, Senior Engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ruihe

Proven track record of delivering the most popular Apple consumer electronics from concept to launch. Successfully design products that meet all performance and reliability requirements with all the space, time and cost constraints. End to end ownership of incubation architecture prototyping, detailed design release, manufacture process, failure analysis. Demonstrated leadership within PD team and cross functional teams.

Ten years deep dive in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, Process, N&V of high volume consumer electronics industry.

Key strengths include: mechanical design and validation, manufacturing process management, fixture/tooling development, acoustics/vibration evaluation and R&D. 
  
Skills: 
• 3D modeling product design: NX, SolidWorks, Pro/E, CATIA V5.
• Strong GD&T, DFM, DFA knowledge for mass production.
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) ANSYS, Boundary Element Method (BEM) LMS Virtual.Lab, Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) VA-One.
• Hand-on experience in NVH measurement, system and component level vibration analysis.
• Test equipment: Impedance Tube, microphones, accelerometers, impact hammer, shaker table, dynamics signal analyzer, NI-DAQ, LMS-DAQ and software LabView, LMS Test. Lab, MATLAB.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Lead, Senior Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Present | Cupertino, CA
Lead awesome PD team to design and have shipped 8x gen Haptics modules and Apple's first force-sensing camera control button from concept to mass production. Shipped iPhone 17ProMax, 17 Pro, 16 ProMax, 16 Pro, 15 ProMax, 14 ProMax, 13 ProMax, 13 Pro, Apple Watch S3, S4, S5, S6, SE. And more to come.

### Senior Mechanical/Dynamics Engineer @ HGST, a Western Digital company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA
• Dynamic design and analysis of servo writer process and equipment 
    - Setup SOPs, test plan, and dynamics specs for servowriter platform and factory environment 
    - Design and conduct engineering experiment including vibration / acoustic / thermal / pressure
    - Conduct component and system level dynamics analysis on HDD / motor / fan / fixture / cell / rack
    - Evaluate dynamic performance of automation tools and identify noise / vibration source
    - Define acoustic and floor vibration specs for servo writer installation in factory environment
    - Design modification with cost reduction for current and next generation SSW rack and cabinet
    - Characterize MEMS accelerometer to implement a 24/7 shock and vibration monitoring system

• Mechanical Design 
    - Design fixtures, parts of machine, operation station and processing tools
    - Design from conceptual to detail design, sketch to prototype and release to factory
    - Apply GD&T in tooling hardware design and conduct experiment verification 
    - Review design concept and drawings from suppliers and provide suggestions
    - Evaluate design using finite element analysis (FEA) for stress-strain-deformation analysis 
    - Electro-mechanical package design including battery, wireless antenna, sensors, PCBA  

• Lead engineer of Helium processing tools and bulk erase tools
     - Responsible for tools performance evaluation, maintenance, upgrade and training
     - Define calibration, correlation and repeatability matrices for Helium vacuum machine 
     - Co-work with manufacturing team and vendors in China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand

### Research Assistant @ Vibro-Acoustics Consortium, University of Kentucky
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Lexington, Kentucky
• Actively engaged in research activities supported by Vibro-Acoustics Consortium.
• Research involves: muffler/duct acoustic attenuation, structural borne and airborne paths frequency based substructuring, systematic noise vibration analysis.

### Teaching Assistant @ Vibro-Acoustics Consortium, University of Kentucky
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Lexington, Kentucky
• Guide ME 310 mechanical experiment I (2012 Spring, 2012 Fall, 2013 Spring)
• Teach 200+ undergraduate students to use lab equipments and conduct experiments succesfully
• Grade homework and lab reports

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ WD, a Western Digital company
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
• Working with Hard Disk Assembly Analysis team. 
• Projects involving: Actuator Resonance Vibration Control, Voice Coil Motor and PZT FRFs Modal Identification, Operational-Shock Test.

### Research Assistant @ Electro-Mechanical Lab, University of Connecticut
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Storrs, CT
• Advancing the science base for sensing methodology, sensor design, characterization, networking, and applications for improved observability and controllability of complex dynamic systems, such as manufacturing machines and processes.

• Conduct fundamental and applied research in sensing physics and transduction mechanisms, invent new methods for sensor integration, improve the energy-efficiency in information acquisition for intelligent system and structure health monitoring, diagnosis, and prognosis.

### Research Assistant @ Automotive Safety Lab, Harbin Institute of Technology
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Project: 
ABAQUS Based Finite Element Analysis on Pedestrian’s Lower Limb in Car Crash
• Built 3D and FEA model of human lower limb in Pro/E and ABAQUS with biomechanical properties
• Analyzed impact simulation results and provided application in human protection

### Assistant Designer (Intern) @ China FAW Transmission Co., Ltd.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Chuangchun, China
• Tested and improved the efficiency of the assembling line 
• Designed fixture structure of transmission, applied Mechanical Principles and Mechanical Design
• Led a team of six members to establish the technical schedule
• Won the praise of “Excellent Intern”


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering
University of Kentucky

### Six Sigma - Managing the Lean Enterprise Improvement Program in Industrial and System Engineering
San José State University

### PhD student in Mechanical Engineering
University of Kentucky

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Automotive Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13