Senior Engineer – Mechanical

About the role

We are adding to our team at our Sun Prairie Innovation Center! Come join us as a Senior Mechanical Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Helps drive early-stage technology innovation by researching markets, developing new concepts, and rapidly prototyping to assess feasibility and risk.
• Leads and supports cross-functional collaboration to move ideas into development.
• Sustains intellectual property creation and identifies new growth opportunities.
• This is a hybrid position, with 3 days a week at our Sun Prairie Innovation Center.
• Lead and support development of multiple advanced concepts and new technologies aligned with growth initiatives.
• Conducts competitive analysis, market research, and voice-of-customer investigations.
• Develops early-stage concepts, feasibility studies, and product architectures.
• Builds and tests prototypes using rapid methods to validate performance.
• Designs robust test plans and performs data analysis to evaluate feasibility and risk.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to transition concepts into development pipelines.
• Helps identify new markets, applications, and expansion opportunities.
• Drives intellectual property development including patents.
• Acts as technical leader in emerging technologies and innovation methods.
• Mentors others and presents findings to leadership.

Requirements

• BS in Mechanical Engineering required; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Strong innovation mindset with proven record of patents or novel concepts.
• Expertise in prototyping, testing, and data-driven engineering decisions.
• Experience with CAD tools and engineering analysis.
• Experience with voice-of-customer and market research methods.
• Experience collaborating with industrial design teams preferred.
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.