Senior Product Engineer (Electrical)

Join an industry-leading manufacturer. Explore current job openings at Feit Electric and help us create innovative solutions that brighten millions of homes. Who We Are: Founded and headquartered in California, Feit Electric is celebrating over 45 years as a leading global lighting and smart home brand. Through innovative design, supply chain expertise, and industry-leading technology, Feit Electric offers its customers a full portfolio of reliable lighting products, including home décor lighting collections, light fixtures, smart and feature-rich high-performance lighting solutions, Home Safety products and a full line of general household specialty light bulbs in all shapes, sizes, and configurations. Feit Electric started with the hard work of one American family who built a thriving business on a foundation of customer obsession, nimble execution, and relentless pursuit of market disruption. It grew into a company of hundreds of hardworking employees across the United States who pride themselves on making quality lighting products widely available for everyday homes. We celebrate the richness of everyday life, real people, and hard work. We obsess over making lighting smarter, safer, more energy‑efficient, and more beautiful. Our goal is to make lighting fit seamlessly into your life so you can focus on making memories with family and friends. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Product Engineer at Feit Electric, you will lead the design, prototyping, approval, and launch of new lighting and connected home products within your assigned category. You will act as the engineering lead, ensuring that all products meet stringent customer requirements and quality standards, while serving as a change agent who applies AI tools across the product development lifecycle to accelerate cycle time, elevate quality, and continuously improve how we engineer. You will also mentor Product Engineers, guiding them to maintain high standards in product development and to adopt AI‑enabled workflows. Daily collaboration with factories, product managers, sales, graphics, and purchasing teams is essential to ensure products are delivered on time and meet all company and regulatory standards. The mission: own the engineering of best‑in‑class lighting and connected home products from concept to launch, and make AI a force multiplier that shortens cycle time, raises first‑pass quality, and lifts the entire engineering team’s standard of practice. Technical Leadership Product Development: Design and develop products that comply with regulatory and UL‑certified safety standards, meet customer specifications, and are launched on time and within budget. Project Management: Accurately manage and track project progress to ensure timely completion. Address technical challenges through a structured phase‑gate process. Technical Accountability: Validate, test, and approve products using rigorous DV and FAA procedures. Verify and approve UL/ETL safety reports to ensure products meet both customer and regulatory compliance. Innovation: Identify new technologies, including emerging AI capabilities, that can enable innovative new products and improved engineering practices. Communication: Maintain frequent communication with supply partners to quickly resolve any issues and ensure project objectives are met. Documentation: Ensure the accuracy of user manuals, product labeling, and engineering specifications for all printed materials. Regulatory Compliance: Maintain a deep understanding of regulatory standards, including Title 20, Title 24, Energy Star, DLC, UL Standards, and ANSI. Stay informed about emerging technologies that could impact product development. AI-Enabled Continuous Improvement AI as a Productivity Multiplier: Apply AI tools across the product development workflow, including design analysis, compliance review, ECO triage, and root‑cause analysis on field returns. Compliance Velocity: Use AI to accelerate UL, FCC, DOE, Energy Star, and Title 20/24 document review, shortening certification cycle time on every new SKU. First‑Pass Design Quality: Leverage AI‑driven circuit, thermal, and photometric analysis to reduce prototype iterations and BOM cost. Predictive Quality Intelligence: Apply AI pattern detection on test data and field returns to surface failure modes before products hit retail. Engineering Knowledge Automation: Use AI to generate and maintain ECOs, parse supplier specs, and convert tribal engineering knowledge into searchable, reusable assets. Change Agent: Identify, evaluate, and pilot emerging AI capabilities relevant to engineering workflows. Build playbooks, prompts, and lightweight automations that allow the broader team to adopt proven AI practices. Judgment Over Output: Critically evaluate AI‑generated suggestions against UL standards, engineering principles, and manufacturability constraints. Distinguish reliable AI output from confidently‑wrong results. Process Improvement: Continuously improve the New Product Development process by combining AI capabilities with disciplined engineering practice. Mentoring: Serve as a mentor to Product Engineers, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality product development and effective adoption of AI‑enabled workflows. Design Reviews: Oversee and lead Design Reviews for all engineering team members within your product family, ensuring adherence to standards at each Stage‑Gate exit. Knowledge Sharing: Regularly share knowledge and perspectives, including AI workflows, prompts, and best practices, with stakeholders to promote a collaborative and informed working environment. Other duties may be assigned. What You’ll Need: Required 7+ years of experience in new product development and project management in an individual contributor role. Demonstrated experience applying AI/LLM tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) to engineering or product development tasks. Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution. Deep understanding of technical concepts, including electrical specifications, LED drivers, lighting systems, schematics, installations, and wiring diagrams, with the ability to provide sound design recommendations. Strong organizational and analytical skills with a proven ability to manage multiple urgent projects in a fast‑paced environment. Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across different departments. Proficient in using Asana for project management and the MS Office Suite. Familiarity with DMM, oscilloscopes, and both DC & AC power supply design. Proficient with general‑purpose AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, or equivalent) for daily engineering work, with strong prompt‑engineering skills to get useful, validated engineering outputs. Strong judgment to validate AI output against engineering standards, UL/safety requirements, and real‑world manufacturability. Preferred Familiarity with AI‑assisted document parsing, spec extraction, test‑report drafting, and code/script generation for test automation. Comfortable building lightweight workflows or automations (no‑code, Python, or scripting) that combine AI with internal data and tools. Curiosity and self‑direction to pilot new AI capabilities and translate proven practices into team‑wide standards. Essential Physical Demands: Ability to work on‑site, with prolonged periods of sitting or standing at a computer monitor. Hands‑on involvement in testing prototype products. Ability to lift and carry objects over 50 pounds, and to push and pull heavy items as required. Comfortable performing physical tasks such as standing, bending, kneeling, sitting, and reaching. Adherence to safety protocols and maintaining a clean working environment. Feit Electric is a privately held, multi‑generational leader in residential and commercial lighting headquartered in Pico Rivera, California. Through its brands, Feit, LIFX, Good Earth Lighting, USI, and Cree at Lowe's, the company serves millions of consumers and trade professionals across North America and internationally. What You’ll Get: A collaborative, scrappy, and innovative team environment. A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, and paid time off. Pay Data: Salary Range $90,000.00 to $120,000.00 annual base salary (exempt). This role is eligible for a discretionary year‑end bonus. Final compensation will be determined based on candidate qualifications, experience, and market conditions. Additional Data: This position is based on site Monday through Friday at our Pico Rivera, CA office. Occasional domestic travel may be required for customer/vendor meetings. Feit Electric, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of sex, pregnancy, race, national origin, color, religion, age or disability or any other status protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Feit Electric