Top Apple engineer moves to mysterious new project News Highlights: Top Apple engineer moves to mysterious new project Dan Riccio, one of Apple’s top designers, is moving to a mysterious new role in Cupertino. After joining Apple in 1998, Riccio worked on many groundbreaking products, from the first iMac to last year’s AirPods Max and M1-powered Macs. Now he has become Apple’s “Vice President of Engineering”. Going forward, Riccio says he will “spend all my time and energy at Apple creating something new and wonderful that I can’t be more excited about,” said a press release on Monday.