Product Development Engineer

We are recruiting a Product Development Engineer to design and support product concepts that can be utilized for multiple finished product formulations for customers worldwide.  The Product Development Engineer will translate product functional requirements into detailed component and material specifications, develop product performance tests, and manage suppliers that provide outsourced components.  This role will extend from product design into product manufacturing, where the Product Engineer will support the specification of equipment and will lead new product launches with supplier qualification and production line trials.  This role provides a unique opportunity to take a product concept all the way from a sketch to a high-volume commercial product on sale in multiple markets.

This person will interface closely with both customer-facing teams and internal departments, including Sales, Field Service, Regulatory, Sourcing, and Manufacturing.

Responsibilities Include:

Product Design:

• Early partnership with marketing teams to identify design elements that are new, unique or difficult and enable their realization through all engineering verification and validation cycles.

• Understanding the functional requirements for the product and developing quantified functional specifications to evaluate product designs.

• Translating functional specifications into detailed component and material specifications.

• Developing test criteria for evaluating the quality of products at the end of the manufacturing process.

• Drive DfX activities in the hardware product development schedules to meet or exceed product targets (ex. Manufacturability, scale, quality, reliability, safety, cost).

• Drive clear and accurate communications and recommendations to peers and senior management by distilling complex technical challenges, outlining options, and providing supporting data.

• Perform technical analyses, recommend, prepare and execute designs of experiments, and characterize process and design interactions.

Supplier Evaluation & Qualification:

• Identifying candidate suppliers for materials and components.

• Assessing supplier technical capabilities for sourcing decisions.

• Supporting the qualification of new suppliers with on-site visits and quality control assessments.

New Product Launch: 

• Devising trials for demonstration of production process capability pertaining to new products.

• Analyzing trial data to identify issues and propose improvements.

• Defining material specifications, SOPs, and process parameters that are compatible with our goals for safety, quality, delivery and cost in mass production.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external vendors to identify, characterize and deliver manufacturing processes that enable the commercialization of unique and emerging technologies in new product categories.