Product Development and Design Engineer (On-Site)

About the role

Gopher Sport is looking for a passionate, creative, and technically skilled Product Design Engineer to join our team and help bring innovative, manufacturable products to life.

You will design new products and improve existing ones, transforming concepts into manufacturable solutions used by millions worldwide. You will brainstorm design solutions, prototype physical models and proof of concepts, create CAD models and renders, define colors, materials and manufacturing processes, understand cost and vendor constraints, turn CAD models into technical drawings, review samples and troubleshoot quality issues, and develop engineered solutions for part connections, tolerancing, and manufacturing methods to ensure reliable assembly and production.

Responsibilities

• Create designs that satisfy the product’s performance, appearance, design, functionality, quality and cost requirements.
• Provide design options with alternative solutions.
• Create designs that are manufacturable.
• Recommend ideas for design modifications to improve the performance, appearance, design, functionality, quality, or cost of each product.
• Troubleshoot and modify existing designs in order to solve manufacturability, cost or other obstacles.
• Improve design for improved durability, appearance, manufacturability, quality and cost.
• Confirm product specifications, BOM’s, product descriptions and presentations are correct.
• Research patents in concept phase and create patentable ideas while avoiding infringement.
• Move assigned product projects through the design stages, meeting or exceeding deadlines.
• Create technical drawings and product specification documents for manufacturing, following company standard processes.
• Update and correct any product designs or technical or manufacturing specifications that change or are incorrect.
• Store working and completed design and specification files according to department processes.
• Collaborate with others internally or externally on complex designs and diverse product categories.
• Assist in the completion of customer-facing product use and product assembly instructions.
• Assist in other activities associated with receiving and confirming prototypes, samples, first shipments, quality issues, returns, etc.
• Build physical proof of concept prototypes for product projects as needed or directed.
• Maintain lab tools and machines, including required maintenance and supplies, as well as make determinations on additional tools to expand prototyping capabilities.
• Oversee material management and ordering, ensuring necessary materials are stocked and available for prototype building.
• Keep lab up to safety standards, clean and organized.

Requirements

• 4-year Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design / Product Design / Mechanical Engineering
• 3+ years experience in Industrial Design / Product Development
• SolidWorks proficiency, including technical drawings and 3D modeling
• Advanced understanding of materials and manufacturing
• Hands-on experience building and testing early-stage prototypes using diverse materials, tools, and maker-space equipment
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and adapt quickly

Benefits

• Traditional and HSA Health Insurance options
• Vision insurance
• 3 weeks of Paid Time Off accrued the first year
• 3 weeks of remote work flexible hours
• 8 company paid holidays
• Profit sharing
• 401K with employer match
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Product discounts
• Onsite fitness center

Pay

$75,673 to $88,326 per year