Senior Test Engineer

About the role

The Senior Protocol Development Test Engineer (Sr. PDTE) at SharkNinja is responsible for identifying issues within products before they are launched. This role involves developing new test methods to evaluate product performance and safety, representing the consumer's voice, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Represent the consumer by developing protocols/tests that evaluate product requirements against targets set by Product Development.
• Act as the protocol/test/safety/performance standards "expert" for cross-functional team member questions and concerns.
• Identify and work with Internal/External SMEs across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Present status of activities and special projects to senior/executive management regularly.
• Takes a lead role (independently and in teams) to solve technical issues found in the development of a product.
• Mentor more junior team members, support all team members, and encourage their efforts.
• Collaborate to help establish a project's user design, and functional requirements by delivering robust test protocols, then helping to validate through testing and building consensus on next steps.
• Takes ownership of protocol development throughout conception, CAD execution, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at a fast pace & successfully develops team to do the same.
• Works closely with our Engineering teams on design approaches to create testing rigs to evaluate product performance.
• Collaborates seamlessly with our UK, BOS, AL, and China based Product Development teams to ensure that great ideas make it through to production.
• Request and/or run competitive product analyses, giving your business partners insight into how Shark stacks up against the competition.
• Request and analyze market research to identify consumer real world behaviors.

Requirements

• BSEE, BSME or similar technical discipline major
• 5+ years of product test engineering experience
• Prior experience designing or analyzing electromechanical systems
• Data analysis around general statistics (Tukey Range, T-tests, etc.)
• Excellent oral and written communication to create reports, write business correspondence, & develop procedures
• Change agent with energy, passion, and enthusiasm to drive change
• Analytical, problem solving, and root-cause analysis skills
• Able to multi-task and handle tasks with competing priorities effectively
• Proficient in all MS Office
• Knowledge of setting up Design of Experiments

Desired Attributes

• Experience using JIRA or other project management tools
• Experience using Minitab or equivalent stats software
• Experience with 3D Modeling
• Model shop experience
• Experience with Arduino, RaspberryPi, scripting (including Python)

Pay Range

$72,700—$137,500 USD

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• Employee stock purchase program
• Life insurance
• AD&D
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Generous paid time off
• Company holidays
• Parental leave
• Identity theft protection
• Pet insurance
• Pre-paid legal insurance
• Back-up child and eldercare days
• Product discounts
• Referral bonus program