Senior Design Engineer- New Product Development
Sub-Zero Group, Inc. · Madison, WI · 3 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Facilitate early-phase product definition by collaborating with project management, industrial design, user experience, compliance, reliability, manufacturing, quality, and service stakeholders to develop customer, business, and regulatory needs into clear system-level requirements and constraints.
- Work with internal and external teams to design, prototype, and implement embedded software, wire harnesses, electromechanical, and thermal subsystems into production-ready, mass-manufacturable products while meeting project deadlines.
- Evaluate designs through modeling, simulation, benchmarking, laboratory testing, and data analysis.
- Partner with manufacturing, suppliers, and regulatory teams to ensure system performance, safety, reliability, and cost targets are achieved.
- Present system architectures and design solutions for review by engineering peers, product teams, and leadership.
- Mentor engineers in design decisions, integration best practices, and structured problem-solving.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or better in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field.
- 7+ years: Relevant engineering experience
- 3+ years: Relevant software, hardware, and/or electromechanical design experience
- Proficiency in Solidworks or related CAD software
- Strong technical, written, oral, and team communication skills
- Code capable in Python, C++ or similar
Preferred Qualifications
- Team and individual experience in approaching new, nuanced, large and/or long-term projects/problems/tasks requiring coordinated planning for success
- Wire harnessing and system integration
- Electromechanical subsystem design
- Proficiency in Solidworks Electrical schematic creation and 3D routing
- Rapid prototyping
- Proof-of-concept and/or functional/feasible/testable implementation-of-concept
- Quick-turn technologies and tools such as 3D Printing and/or other means of prototyping physical parts/assemblies
- Circuit/PCB design/analysis
- Embedded programming and/or "input/output" software development
- Data capture and analysis
- Cloud Computing or IoT implementation
Benefits
We Value Our Employees By Providing:
- 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
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This position requires a pre-employment drug/alcohol test and background check, which will be administered after a conditional job offer is extended. A negative drug/alcohol test result is required for employment. Refusal to take the test or a positive result may disqualify a candidate from further consideration. All drug testing will be conducted in accordance with federal and state laws.