Sr. Product Development Engineer

Salary: $119,008 - 178,000 per year Requirements:

• We are looking for someone with a strong drive and a highly persistent approach to researching technical challenges and finding solutions for our direct and indirect customers.
• We value a positive outlook on what is possible.
• You bring experience across multiple product development phases, including opportunity evaluation, requirements definition, design analysis, prototyping, testing, validation, field assessment, commercialization, or post-launch enhancement.
• You have knowledge of manufacturability, customer applications, building practices, codes, standards, and product performance requirements.
• You have demonstrated success leading complex engineering projects or technical workstreams independently, coordinating contributors, and delivering on commitments.
• You are committed to safety, integrity, inclusion, sustainability, quality, and responsible use of company-approved digital and AI tools.
• You are willing to travel for field research, customer and specifier meetings, testing, external collaboration, and industry activities.
• You hold a bachelors degree from an accredited institution in Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing, or a related engineering field, or in Wood Science, Forest Products, or another related technical discipline.
• You hold a Professional Engineer license.
• You typically have seven to ten years of progressively responsible engineering experience in product development, product engineering, applied research, building products, construction systems, manufacturing, materials, or a related technical field.

• We lead the assessment of market problems, customer needs, and new product or application opportunities.
• We convert customer, field, builder, specifier, installer, and channel insights into technical requirements, design criteria, performance expectations, and development priorities.
• We evaluate application fit, technical feasibility, manufacturability, market readiness, assumptions, constraints, and implementation risks.
• We recommend whether concepts should move forward to prototyping, validation, field testing, commercialization, additional study, or discontinuation.
• We monitor building practices, codes, standards, sustainability expectations, and industry trends that may create opportunities or risks.
• We provide senior engineering leadership from problem definition and concept review through testing, launch readiness, and post-launch improvement.
• We develop specifications, design inputs, analyses, prototypes, test methods, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation.
• We lead multidisciplinary technical workstreams and coordinate testing with internal teams, laboratories, universities, suppliers, and engineering partners.
• We analyze data, investigate performance gaps, identify root causes, and recommend changes to product design, materials, processes, or applications.
• We ensure decisions are supported by accurate, validated evidence and integrate safety, quality, code, compliance, sustainability, and confidentiality requirements throughout development.
• We partner with Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, Field Engineering, and customer-facing teams to align technical decisions with customer value and business goals.
• We support commercialization through performance data, application guidance, risk assessments, technical documentation, training, customer education, and launch support.
• We communicate technical status, assumptions, unresolved questions, options, risks, and recommendations to technical and business audiences.
• We build productive relationships with customers, specifiers, universities, research institutions, engineering firms, laboratories, and industry organizations.
• We review technical work, coach less experienced professionals, influence decisions without formal authority, and escalate significant safety, performance, compliance, financial, environmental, or reputational risks.

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We are a fully remote, work-from-home team, but this role is only open to candidates who are currently based in, or planning to move to, MS, AL, AR, OK, LA, NC, OR, WA, WV, MI, or MT. Our Wood Products Division has been delivering quality building products and solutions for more than 100 years, serving builders, dealers, specifiers, and homeowners with strong product performance and support. As part of our broader company, we sustainably manage forests and manufacture products that make a positive difference. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, an HSA option with a company contribution, voluntary long-term care, employee assistance programs, mentoring, training and development, volunteerism support, diversity networks, and retirement benefits including a 401(k) match and a company contribution equal to 5% of base salary. Eligible employees also receive paid vacation, paid holidays, and paid parental leave. The role offers annual merit increases and eligibility for an annual incentive program with a target bonus opportunity.

last updated 37 week of 2026