Sr. Product Development Engineer

Job Description

At Wendover Art Group, we do not just design products, we figure out how to make ideas real and how to manufacture them repeatedly at the highest standards of quality, design, and cost.

We are looking for a Senior Product Engineer who thrives at the intersection of product design, engineering, materials, manufacturing, and problem solving.

You will take creative concepts across signage, lighting, sculpture, mirrors, dimensional art, and custom installations and determine how they should actually be built.

You will design it, model it, prototype it, build it, test it, break it, improve it, and ultimately see it manufactured.

Working within our vertically integrated manufacturing environment, you will move directly between CAD, materials, equipment, prototypes, and the production floor to solve problems in real time.

The right person is equal parts engineer, product developer, problem solver, and hands-on builder, someone who gets energized when the answer isn't obvious and takes ownership of figuring it out.

About Wendover Art Group

Wendover Art Group is a privately-owned, domestic manufacturer of artwork serving the commercial, residential, and corporate markets. Founded on the Core Values of Honor, Excellence, Team and Smart with the aggressive goal to build the best art company in the world, Wendover Art Group’s mission, to deliver superior value to its customers, drives the Company’s strategy on all fronts. The Company has transformed from a highly concentrated wholesaler of reproduction art with only 3 customers to an industry leading, vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of artwork serving thousands of customers. Since 2005 the Company has grown revenue over 12x by establishing industry leading positions in the Residential Retail, Interior Design, Hospitality, Senior Living, Healthcare and Multi-family markets. Wendover’s success in pioneering these industries can be attributed to a steadfast dedication to excellence in all things and attracting the best talent in the industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Own products from concept through production, including engineering, prototyping, testing, refinement, and manufacturing launch
• Engineer creative concepts into buildable solutions, defining materials, dimensions, tolerances, hardware, joinery, finishes, assembly, and installation
• Develop complete 3D models, CAD files, production drawings, BOMs, specifications, and manufacturing documentation
• Build and test prototypes directly with materials, tooling, equipment, and production teams
• Engineer for manufacturability, quality, cost, scalability, durability, and repeatability without compromising design intent
• Research new materials, technologies, fabrication methods, and processes that expand what Wendover can create
• Partner directly with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, Industrial Design, and artisans to solve technical challenges
• Diagnose product and manufacturing failures, determine root cause, and engineer permanent solutions
• Improve existing products and processes to reduce waste, improve yield, strengthen quality, and increase efficiency
• Stay actively engaged through first articles and production launch to ensure what was engineered can be executed consistently at scale

Skills and Traits for Success

• Strong engineering fundamentals with the ability to develop solutions where a blueprint may not exist
• Willingness to build, test, observe, troubleshoot, and improve
• Accountability for the product through engineering, manufacturing, quality, and continuous improvement
• Ability to engineer products that can be built repeatedly, efficiently, profitably, and at scale
• Discipline to solve the source of a problem rather than repeatedly addressing the symptom
• Genuine interest in new materials, technologies, processes, and better ways to manufacture
• Ability to prototype, test, make decisions, and create momentum
• Understanding that small technical decisions have significant implications for quality, cost, safety, and performance
• Ability to work effectively with designers, artisans, operators, technicians, engineers, and production leadership
• Personal ownership of the finished product and the standard at which it is manufactured

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Industrial Design, Manufacturing Engineering, or related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in Product Design, Manufacturing is a plus
• Strong experience developing physical products from concept through manufacturing
• Advanced proficiency in SolidWorks, Rhino, AutoCAD, or comparable CAD/3D modeling platforms
• Ability to create production-ready drawings, specifications, BOMs, tolerances, and technical documentation
• Strong understanding of materials, fabrication, assembly, tooling, fixtures, and prototyping
• Experience troubleshooting manufacturing and product failures and translating findings into engineered solutions
• Strong aesthetic judgment combined with technical discipline
• Comfortable working hands-on within a manufacturing environment to balance design intent, manufacturability, quality, cost, and performance
• High ownership, intellectual curiosity, urgency, and the ability to move between creative ambiguity and technical precision

Why Wendover

At Wendover, you won't engineer a product and hand it off for someone else to figure out how to build.

You have direct access to the people, equipment, materials, and manufacturing capabilities needed to take an idea from a screen to a physical product within the same building.

One project may involve engineered signage or integrated lighting. The next may require solving the structure of a dimensional sculpture, developing a new material application, or determining how to manufacture something we have never made before.

For an engineer who wants to create, build, experiment, solve difficult problems, and have visible ownership of the finished product, this is an opportunity to directly shape both our products and how we manufacture them.