Product Design Engineer

Role: Product Design Engineer

Location: Austin, TX (Fully onsite)

Duration: Full-Time

Salary: $125K+ Benefits

Role Overview

• The team focuses on building store environments, such as retail environments.

• The work includes designing and developing furniture, fixtures, and other elements within these retail environments.

• A comparable background could come from the automotive industry, particularly candidates with experience developing physical products through external manufacturing partners.

• Products are developed through an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) model.

• The internal team is not necessarily creating all of the CAD designs themselves. Vendors are responsible for much of the detailed design work.

• This role will guide vendors toward the appropriate design solution, review their work, identify issues, and provide technical direction.

• There may still be hands-on technical work, including:

• CAD work

• 3D printing

• Prototyping

• Creating mockups

• Technical problem-solving

• Day-to-Day

• Approximately 50% cross-functional communication/collaboration and 50% technical problem-solving.

• Regularly communicate and collaborate with cross-functional internal teams.

• Work closely with overseas vendors throughout the product development process.

• Guide vendors through design challenges and help drive solutions.

• Review designs with an understanding of manufacturing capabilities, requirements, rules, and regulations.

• Independently use CAD when needed for prototyping, mockups, or design exploration.

Top 3 Skills:

• CAD experience

• Minimum of approximately 2 years of CAD experience.

• Candidate needs to be able to work independently in CAD without significant training or oversight.

• New Product Development

• Previous experience taking physical products through the new product development lifecycle.

• Experience working through design iterations, prototypes, and manufacturing.

• Manufacturing Knowledge

• Understanding of manufacturing processes, requirements, rules, and regulations.

• Experience partnering with manufacturers/vendors to determine feasible design solutions.

Additional Preferred Experience:

Experience working with overseas vendors/manufacturing partners.

Experience in an ODM development environment.

Automotive, consumer products, furniture/fixture development, or similar physical product development experience could translate well.