Rubén Caballero
Rubén Caballero is a Chilean-born engineer and technology executive with Spanish, Canadian, and American citizenship. Born on December 20, 1967, in Santiago, he studied in Canada and the United States, earning a BEng from École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1991 and an MSc from New Mexico State University in 1996. He later received an honorary doctorate from Polytechnique Montréal in 2019. He served 13 years in the Canadian Air Force as an Aerospace Engineering Officer, achieving the rank of Captain in 1994.
Caballero joined Apple in 2005, where he became a founding leader of the iPhone hardware team and founder of Apple’s Wireless Design & Technology group. He contributed to the development of the first iPhone and helped shape other Apple products such as the iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, Apple TV, and AirPort. By 2019 he had become Vice President of Engineering at Apple, leading the company’s 5G wireless efforts before leaving Apple that year.
In April 2020, Caballero joined Microsoft as Corporate Vice President of Engineering in Devices & Technology, focusing on augmented and mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and advanced hardware, including work on the HoloLens. In June 2024 he joined Humane as Chief of Engineering and Strategy. Between 2019 and 2021, he also served as Chief Wireless Strategist at Keyssa Inc. He has two children.
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