Product Design Engineer (Retail Fixtures & Mechanical Design)

Location: Cupertino, CA (Onsite/Hybrid as applicable)
Pay Rate: $80-$85/hour (W2) depending on experience
Duration: 6-Month W2 Contract with possible extension

About the Opportunity

Russell Tobin is supporting a leading global technology company in hiring a Product Design Engineer to join an innovative engineering team focused on the design and development of retail fixtures and customer-facing display environments. This role is ideal for a creative mechanical engineer who enjoys solving complex design challenges, collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines, and bringing products from concept through manufacturing.

The team is responsible for developing high-quality retail display systems, furniture, and fixture solutions that balance aesthetics, safety, sustainability, reliability, and manufacturability across a large global retail network.

What You’ll Do

• Design and engineer a variety of retail fixtures, display systems, tables, walls, and other mechanical assemblies.

• Manage multiple fixture development projects simultaneously with international manufacturing partners and vendors.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to refine product aesthetics, customer experience, functionality, and manufacturing requirements.

• Iterate and validate designs through prototyping, reliability testing, stress analysis, tolerance analysis, and manufacturing data review.

• Develop manufacturing processes and tooling solutions with external vendors.

• Participate in design reviews, brainstorming sessions, and technical discussions while providing and incorporating constructive feedback.

• Travel up to 15% domestically and internationally to manufacturing partners and installation sites to support product development, validation, and root cause analysis.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.

• 7+ years of relevant product design or mechanical engineering experience.

• Strong understanding of mechanical design, solid mechanics, material properties, and structural behavior.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering and manufacturing teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Highly self-motivated, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

• Ability and willingness to travel as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with 2D and 3D CAD software (SolidWorks, Creo, NX, CATIA, or similar).

• Familiarity with metal manufacturing, fabrication, and tooling development.

• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), tolerance analysis, and root cause analysis.

• Experience designing products for mass production or working with ODM/OEM manufacturing partners.

• Backgrounds in consumer products, retail fixtures, furniture systems, industrial equipment, or other mechanically engineered products are highly valued, though candidates from other analytical engineering fields with strong engineering fundamentals are encouraged to apply.

Why Apply?

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to products that are experienced by customers across a global retail footprint while working alongside world-class engineering and manufacturing teams. The role offers exposure to product development, vendor collaboration, manufacturing, reliability engineering, and cross-functional design execution within a leading technology environment.

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Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us. 

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.