Principal Product Development Engineers

Berkshire Grey•Bedford, MA

17h•$170,000 - $180,000

About The Position

The Principal Product Development Engineer serves as the primary interface and advocate between Engineering, the Product organization, and Sales, linking business needs to technology. The role is hands-on and includes customer-facing work. It typically focuses on products and features 6–18 months before market launch. The engineer evaluates market needs, develops potential solutions, identifies insights, and assesses technical feasibility in collaboration with Engineering Product teams, generating content and making decisions with those teams. The position requires 10% annual travel, split evenly between domestic and international travel. The stated salary range is $170,000 to $180,000 per year. This position is eligible for Berkshire Grey, Inc.’s Employee Referral Program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math, or a closely related field and seven years of progressively more responsible experience in warehouse logistics, automation, or industrial robotics; alternatively, a Master’s degree in one of these fields and five years of such experience.
Three years of work experience demonstrating ability with presentations and summaries.
Five years of work experience demonstrating ability to work on teams bringing products to market.
Three years of work experience demonstrating ability to generate novel and insightful solutions, and publication of one patent.
Three years of work experience demonstrating knowledge of designing or coding features that went to market.
Two years of work experience demonstrating knowledge of robotics and mechatronics.
Two years of work experience demonstrating knowledge of post-launch product support.
Two years of work experience demonstrating knowledge of Machine Learning, AI, and motion planning.
Four years of work experience demonstrating knowledge of Python.
All years of experience may be gained concurrently.

Responsibilities

Analyze proposed solutions for effectiveness in addressing market needs and technical viability.
Refine high-level product requirements and market goals into actionable units of technology.
Create, update, and maintain annual technology release plans for products.
Present new technology internally and to customers to build understanding and elicit feedback.
Evaluate, summarize, and rank technical options, and build consensus around them.
Participate in brainstorming, hack-a-thons, and design reviews.
Stay abreast of advancements in warehouse robotics and enabling technology.