Product Design Engineer

Meta•Redmond, WA

About The Position

At Reality Labs we aim to bring together cross-disciplinary minds in one place to deliver on our mission: build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere. As a Product Design Engineer, you will take a critical role in developing hardware systems for VR, AR, or New Technology Initiatives. You will become part of a team exploring developing concepts through prototyping and into mass-production consumer electronics. You will work as part of a cross functional team requiring collaboration in domains other than mechanical engineering. Our teams support mechanical engineering fundamentals, prototyping skills, CAD fluency, manufacturing process knowledge, and experience designing consumer electronics.

Requirements

BS in Mechanical Engineering
8+ years of industry experience in mechanical design
Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, geometric tolerancing, and 3D/2D CAD
Working knowledge in material properties, such as plastics, metal, adhesive, glass, etc
Testing and analysis experience (FEA, Simulation, Design of Experiments, etc.)
Knowledge of high-volume manufacturing techniques (stamping, machining, injection molding, etc.)

Nice To Haves

10+ years of product design and development experience of handheld and/or wearable electronics for high volume manufacturing, including full systems ownership
MS or PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Experience designing handheld and wearable electronics for high volume manufacturing
Experience with NX
Experience with products cosmetic surface treatments and interfacing with industrial design teams
Mandarin and/or Cantonese language skills
Experience designing for human factors

Responsibilities

Lead the mechanical design for a particular component, feature or system while having end-to-end product development understanding
Contribute to mechanical solutions as part of a highly cross-functional team
Model, build, test, and refine prototypes and characterization test systems
Work across the full product development cycle, from concept inception to shipping product
Collaborate and manage work with Asia-based Supply Chain
Push state-of-the-art technologies and approaches to solving complex mechanical problems while working with cross functional technical teams
Travel to external vendors up to 20%