Innovation Product Design Engineer III

Key Responsibilities

• Identify unmet consumer needs and opportunity areas through collaboration with Innovation, Marketing, and Voice-of-Customer insights
• Generate innovative mechanical concepts and system architectures, including machine elements (springs, gears, linkages, clutches, dampers, drives), injection-molded plastic parts, and cost-efficient mechanisms
• Translate early hypotheses about customer needs into functional requirements through rapid consumer testing, prototyping, and tight feedback loops, while applying engineering first principles such as FBDs, kinematics, and trigonometry-based geometry to derive custom motion and force relationships
• Build and evaluate early-stage prototypes and proof-of-concept models
• Assess concepts early for performance, durability, cost, manufacturability, and scalability

Requirements

• BS in Engineering with a minimum of 6+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Must be flexible with assignments, able to work independently, and collaborate effectively in a team environment
• Must be organized, methodical, able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and capable of meeting established timelines

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong creative and conceptual thinking skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and rapidly iterate on concepts
• Working understanding of basic business cases, including preliminary revenue projections and concept-level value propositions
• Experience participating in consumer testing activities such as focus groups, clinics, interviews, usability tests, competitive and product benchmarking, or observational research
• Hands-on, DIY / maker mindset with ability to prototype and build concepts quickly
• Strong communication and collaboration skills