Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning his position as a design engineer to spend more time with his family and look after his health, but he had secretly taken a job with a rival, and before leaving the iPhone giant, he stole a “massive volume” of its trade secrets, Apple alleges in a lawsuit against Liu.
Over his seven years at Cupertino-headquartered Apple, Liu rose to become a senior product-design engineer, and worked on the research and development of the company’s “Vision Pro” augmented-reality headset, a wearable computing device. The lawsuit, and Liu’s LinkedIn profile, indicate he now works as a product-design engineer at Santa Monica-based Snap, which owns social messaging app Snapchat, and sells a wearable product called “Spectacles.”
His final role at Apple gave him “access to various novel Apple technologies that are embodied in Apple Vision Pro or not yet released,” the lawsuit filed June 24 in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleged…