It plans to lay off 190 employees in its autopilot project Titan project, which provides a rare window for the company's pursuit of automotive technology.
As of April 16, the technology company plans to lay off workers from eight different Santa Clara County factories near Cupertino, California, in a document submitted to state regulators. A company spokesman confirmed that the decrease was due to the self-driving plan.
Although the iPhone manufacturer has recognized its extensive interest in autopilot, it has never specified in detail what technologies it is studying, and whether it is seeking to build vehicles or sensors, computer systems and software to control it.
Public documents submitted to regulators provide some previously undisclosed clues.
According to a letter Apple sent to California's employment regulator earlier this month, it includes at least 20 software engineers, including a machine learning engineer and 40 hardware engineers.
Some positions suggest that consumers'physical products: three product design engineers and one ergonomics engineer face layoffs. Although it is not clear how many mechanics report to the supervisor and whether the workshop manufactures automotive parts or smaller parts for electronic products and sensors, the number of supervisors in the mechanical workshop has decreased.
The layoffs appear to be the first major restructuring of the Titan project led by Doug Field, who returned to Apple after serving as Vice President of Special Projects at Tesla Inc., an electric car manufacturer.
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