Product Design Engineer

Description

Onsite – Sunnyvale

Must-Have Skills

• Designing and shipping products with Asia-based supply chains, including with JDM working model
• Designing with soft goods materials
• Designing highly cosmetic products and working with Industrial Design 

About the Role

• This individual will work with the Client organization which helps people around the world come together through next generation Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality.
• The Product Design Engineering team is working on cutting edge technology and needs help from skilled engineers that will help bring ideas to reality.
• The main function of this Product Design Engineer is to explore and implement new designs, then to validate technical and product level functionality, use cases, and tech maturity.
• In parallel with de-risking efforts, you will be preparing production documentation including governing design files and bill of materials.
• You will work closely with Asia based JDM suppliers, guiding and managing them through the design and build phases. You will also work alongside a diverse and expert XFN team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design for a particular component, feature, or system while having end-to-end product development understanding
• Contribute to mechanical solutions as part of a highly cross-functional team
• Model, build, test, and refine prototypes and characterization test systems
• Work across the full product development cycle, from concept inception to shipping product, along with our JDM partners
• Collaborate and manage work with Asia-based Supply Chain
• Push state-of-the-art technologies and approaches to solving complex mechanical problems while working with cross functional technical teams

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience designing and shipping components or systems for Consumer Electronics, or similar mid to high-volume industries
• Strong engineering fundamentals and experience with:
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)
• Statistical tolerance analysis techniques
• High-volume manufacturing techniques (stamping, machining, injection molding, MIM, 3D printing, etc.)
• PCBA and FPC design and manufacturing methods
• Working knowledge in material properties, such as plastics, metal, adhesive, etc.
• Production drawings, functional dimensioning, GD&T, and 3D/2D CAD
• Heat transfer, Statics, Dynamics, Structural design
• Proven technical communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, related engineering field
• 7+ years of product design and development experience of handheld and/or wearable high-volume consumer electronics, including complex subsystems and/or full systems ownership

Experience with:

• Designing and shipping products with Asia-based supply chains, including with JDM working model
• Designing with softgoods materials
• Designing highly cosmetic products and working with Industrial Design
• Designing mechanisms
• Designing for reliability, familiarity with reliability and compliance testing
• Testing and analysis (FEA, Simulation, Design of Experiments, etc.)
• Proficient in NX