Senior Design Engineer - Innovation & Enabling

Primary Responsibilities

• Bring deep curiosity, technical rigor, and creative problem-solving to create new and interesting solutions that disrupt and de-risk the most challenging features.
• Own the technical direction of early-stage concepts that shape future products.
• Apply science, simulation and technology to enhance innovative concepts.
• Serve as a technical catalyst by challenging assumptions, constraints, and unlocking paths where traditional approaches fall short.
• Critically evaluate product designs considering user needs, durability, materials and manufacturing processes.
• Bring imagination to every phase of development to shape future design visions.
• Confidently evaluate and manage external providers of emerging technology.
• Pitch future-focused concepts that influence product roadmaps to guide leadership decision-making.

Innovation Efforts

• Own the technical direction of early-stage concepts that shape future products.
• Apply science, simulation and technology to enhance innovative concepts.
• Serve as a technical catalyst by challenging assumptions, constraints, and unlocking paths where traditional approaches fall short.
• Critically evaluate product designs considering user needs, durability, materials and manufacturing processes.
• Bring imagination to every phase of development to shape future design visions.
• Confidently evaluate and manage external providers of emerging technology.
• Pitch future-focused concepts that influence product roadmaps to guide leadership decision-making.

Enabling Efforts

• Utilize design-thinking methods, processes, tools & creativity.
• Develop specifications and requirements.
• Conduct and participate in ideation events.
• Design and build physical prototypes for evaluation.
• Develop and execute verification and validation test plans.
• Conduct feasibility analysis, risk assessments and test results to generate data-driven recommendations.
• Report out developments, learnings, and key findings to transition into new product development programs.

We Value Our Employees

• Competitive compensation based on skills.
• Industry-leading health, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous 401(K) savings and profit-sharing.
• On-site UW Health clinic, fitness center, and walking paths.
• Education assistance and internal training programs.
• Electric vehicle charging.
• Maternity & paternity leave.