What You’ll Do

• Conduct market research for new product definition, establish design requirements, and generate new product concepts.
• Assemble prototypes in-house using Peak’s prototyping equipment, or via external prototyping services.
• Work with industrial designers to align on design directions and implement them in a parametric CAD stack.
• Work with mechanical engineers to produce a design that is safe, manufacturable, and meets the specific design requirements of the project.
• Formulate, document, and execute test procedures for products in development.
• Manage and organize prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass production builds.
• Build proficiency in Onshape (CAD) and establish a clear organizational structure for new and old models.
• Oversee and support outsourced CAD resources in China or Vietnam for latter stage design.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, or comparable degree or experience. 
• 2+ years of post-grad work experience doing some form of consumer product design.
• Someone who uses and cares a lot about gear. Experience with cameras (DSLR + mirrorless) and photography equipment is a major plus.
• Experience with, but not limited to, ideation, sketching, rendering, surface modeling, material selection, basic engineering principles, and some mechanism design.
• Experience owning mechanical parts and assemblies from prototyping through mass production for high volume (50k+/yr) products that have successfully shipped to customers. 
• Ability to travel to China or other parts of Asia to visit our suppliers 1-3 times per year.
• Local to the San Francisco Bay Area (or willing to relocate for this role). Willing to work from our office/workshop in the Dogpatch a minimum of 3 days per week (i.e. this is not a remote role, though we do maintain flexibility). 

About You

• The following list represents a range of traits and experience that would help make you highly effective and impactful in this role:
• Technical aptitude and appetite. You lean into technical challenges and are curious and excited to go deep on a technical topic to build your knowledge.
• Effective at creating and maintaining complex 3D models in any major 3D CAD system (we use Onshape).
• Mechanical aptitude, both hands-on and theoretical. You’ve worked extensively with moving parts and mechanisms. 
• Inclination toward hands-on prototyping. You love to create actual functioning prototypes and products, not just design them virtually.
• Familiarity with a few (or all) of the following manufacturing processes: CNC milling, die casting, injection molding, stamping, extrusion, and assembly.
• Familiarity with various surface finishes: anodization, powder coating, painting, plating.
• Familiarity with the basic materials properties of aluminum alloys, steels, elastomers, and plastics.
• Familiarity with phase-gates manufacturing system (Proto, EVT, DVT, PVT, Mass Production).
• Familiarity with soft goods and textiles. You know your way around a sewing machine and can make simple sewn or laminated patterns and prototypes.
• Previous experience with vendor management, including travel to China. Experience bringing up a manufacturing line and problem solving in-person from EVT through MP.
• Working knowledge of supply chain structure and ability to navigate communication at various levels of the supply chain.
• You have strong opinions about the products that you use in your life and enjoy debating what makes these products great.
• You possess hustle, humility, and a growth mindset. You want to grow tremendously as an engineer by designing and shipping many products. 
• You’re a systems thinker and love optimizing workflows and efficiency. You are capable of navigating surprise roadblocks with rational thinking and problem solving.