Senior Mechanical Engineer - New Product Development - Robotics
At SharkNinja, our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation, and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop whilst they do. We take a team approach to our projects, where everyone has a voice! SharkNinja recognizes the importance of diversity in the workplace and are committed to hiring a diverse team.
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Join a highly adaptive team perfecting hardware and optimizing performance on fast to market robot platforms. We are looking for an exceptional Senior New Product Development Engineer to work at our Boston Headquarters. Our Engineering team excels at leapfrogging our competition in utilizing your existing skills and providing ample opportunities to develop new skills by offering technical and innovative products with increasing value to our consumers every year. This position will give you the chance to make an impact by directly owning and implementing the ideas and technologies you think of and seeing them through to reliable high-volume production.
Role Functions:
- Takes ownership of designs through conception, CAD execution, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at pace.
- Leads design studies (independently and in teams) to solve technical or consumer issues found in the development of a product and to generate new solutions for future products
- Mentors and supports more junior team members.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with other teams including, electrical engineering, software, product development, industrial design and compliance
- Rapid problem-solving system level issues and validating corrective actions by performing DOE to develop a first principles understanding of key variables
- Tearing down, debugging, and analyzing electro-mechanical small appliances.
- Reviewing and interpreting test results providing feedback on product improvement solutions
- Applies understanding & experience of high-volume manufacturing processes and materials to optimize designs.
- Collaborates seamlessly with our UK and China based Product Development teams to ensure that great ideas make it through to production.
Requirements:
- Degree level technical qualification, ideally Product Design Engineering, or Mechanical engineering
- Typically, 4-6 years proven experience in Mechanical/ Product Design/ Industrial Design environment.
- Experience in the consumer goods household appliance space desirable
- Experience in plastic manufacturing processes desirable (e.g.: Injection Molding, DFM, DFMEA, PFMEA, Tolerance Analysis, First Article Inspection
- Experience of delivering real world products to market
- Proficiency in CAD (SolidWorks or Creo)
- Strong background in electro-mechanical development (ex. Pumps, motors, PCBAs, Sensors, etc.)
- “Hands-on” - building of prototypes, product testing in the lab, developing and reporting.
- Flexible and collaborative - these are key to success at SharkNinja.
- Always willing to learn – SharkNinja has an extensive online library of courses and training materials for you to grow and adept to whatever the future may bring.
At SharkNinja, our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world. We work very hard to provide our consumers with high quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation, and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to create the next big thing. We take a team approach to our projects, where everyone has a voice. We want individuals to push limits, look outside the box and think the unthinkable. With the explosive growth we have been experiencing, we’re looking for motivated individuals to join us on our exciting journey. People need to think big, move fast and want to make a significant impact. Are you ready?