Sr. Product Engineer-1
About The Position
The Product Engineer III is a senior engineering role responsible for owning complex product designs, leading significant product improvements, and resolving high‑impact technical issues across the product lifecycle. This role applies deep product knowledge, strong engineering judgment, and advanced problem‑solving to ensure products meet performance, quality, cost, manufacturability, and compliance requirements. Role Overview The Product Engineer III independently owns one or more products, subsystems, or major design elements end‑to‑end—from concept through production and field support. The role goes beyond routine design work to include architectural decisions, advanced validation, and leadership of product changes with business impact. This position does not include formal people‑management responsibility but regularly provides informal mentorship and technical leadership to Product Engineer I and II roles. The role typically reports to an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, or Product Development Leader.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Systems, or related field) required
- Typically 5–8+ years of product engineering or related experience
- Advanced knowledge of product engineering principles and design methodologies
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and systems‑thinking skills
- Ability to independently lead complex engineering initiatives
- Proficiency with CAD, analysis tools, and PLM systems
- Strong understanding of manufacturing and supply chain interfaces
- Effective communication and stakeholder‑influence skills
- High standards for engineering discipline, quality, and accountability
- Requires understanding of basic context and practical knowledge of technical and business environment as well as potential and upcoming technical advances within area of specialization, typically obtained through advanced education and relevant experience
- Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Own complex product designs, components, or subsystems end‑to‑end
- Lead development of robust, cost‑effective, and manufacturable product solutions
- Make sound engineering trade‑offs balancing performance, reliability, cost, and schedule
- Lead investigation and resolution of complex product, quality, or field issues
- Apply advanced root‑cause analysis and engineering methods
- Develop and implement corrective and preventive design actions
- Lead or oversee advanced validation and verification activities
- Analyze test data and ensure product requirements are fully met
- Support reliability, durability, and lifecycle testing strategies
- Lead complex engineering changes affecting performance, cost, or manufacturability
- Ensure changes are properly validated, documented, and released
- Manage product lifecycle activities including refreshes, cost‑reduction initiatives, and obsolescence mitigation
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to optimize producibility and cost
- Support new product introductions, pilots, and production launch readiness
- Resolve advanced manufacturing or supplier‑related technical issues
- Ensure designs comply with engineering standards, regulatory requirements, and internal controls
- Maintain high‑quality technical documentation, specifications, and design records
- Support audits and regulatory reviews as needed
- Partner with Product Management, Marketing, Quality, Procurement, and Operations teams
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
- Influence product and business decisions through technical expertise
- Identify opportunities to improve product performance, cost, reliability, or sustainability
- Support design‑for‑manufacture, design‑for‑cost, and design‑for‑quality initiatives
- Incorporate lessons learned and best practices into future designs
- Provide guidance and mentoring to Product Engineer I and II roles
- Review technical work and reinforce engineering rigor
- Share technical knowledge and best practices across teams
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
