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.