Product Design Engineer

TITLE: Product Design Engineer

HOURS: Full-time 

LOCATION: Brooklyn, New York

REPORTS TO: VP of Product Development & Manufacturing

COMPENSATION: Salary is competitive with other early-stage companies, including benefits, bonus plan, and equity stock options.

BioLite is seeking a Product Designer Engineer to own the design and development phases of our New Product life cycle from concept to manufacturing.  You’ll report to the Vice President of Product Development & Manufacturing and will collaborate with our design, marketing, engineering, and operations departments. We’re a growing product development team with a passion for the outdoors and a powerful social mission. As a Product Design Engineer at BioLite you’ll solve challenging and interesting problems, work with an exceptional team, take ideas from concept through to large-scale production, and make a real positive impact on things that matter.

You Will:

• Design and Development of New Products from Concept to Manufacturing.
• Track and Manage Product Design Risks, recommending appropriate mitigation and cross-functional coordination. 
• Demonstrate Proof of Concepts.
• Deliver production ready (Design for Manufacturing) detailed CAD while maintaining Industrial Design Intent.
• Ensure Product Designs meet Schedule, Performance, Safety, Quality, and Cost goals.    
• Conduct Engineering Design Reviews, Part Break-Up and Design for both Assembly and Tooling, Failure Modes and Effect Analysis, and Testing to ensure high product quality and reliability.
• Support Manufacturing, Quality, Testing, Supply-Chain and other technical roles as needed; establishing successful transfer of designs to manufacturing for mass production.
• Foster and manage positive working relationships with cross-functional teams including design, marketing, engineering, and operations. 
• Conducting in-field research for both our Outdoor and Emerging Markets.
• Travel anticipated approximately up to 20% of the time.

You Have:

• A Mechanical Engineering degree is required for this position
• 5+ years’ experience in a relevant field working on developing hardware
• Experience in Consumer Electronics product development and manufacturing
• Creative concept generation, and down selection recommendation 
• Eagerness to prototype, leveraging simple shop tools and/or rapid prototyping techniques
• Experience transferring product designs, through DFM, to Contract Manufacturers in China
• Accountability, sense of humor, proactive nature and work ethic
• Good working knowledge of plastic materials, injection molding, sheet metal, and die-casting
• Experience with Solidworks, ProE, or NX 3D CAD modeling software(s).
• Willingness to get outdoors to use and test our products, both BioLite and/or competitive
• Excellent verbal and written communication.  

Our Benefits:

• Comprehensive healthcare plans
• PTO and family leave
• Community engagement activities - we celebrate each other's wins and work as a team!

About BioLite:

BioLite is a for-profit social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets distributed energy solutions for off-grid communities around the world. Our business serves two distinct markets: emerging-market families living in energy poverty, and outdoor enthusiasts seeking off-grid cooking, charging and lighting products.

When we create a more inclusive workplace, our solutions get better and our entire team gets smarter. BioLite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we strive to enable everyone to show up as their full selves. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

To Apply:

Please submit your resume, cover letter and portfolio (and/or examples of past work):

https://app.builtforteams.com/biolite-inc/jobs/a74df38b/apply

BioLite is not accepting candidates via recruiters.