Product Development Engineer

Job summary

We are looking for a Product Development Engineer to join our Professional Volunteer Success Team to advance new product development of innovative products that work to help solve global issues. As an experienced Product Development Engineer, you will have the opportunity to apply engineering fundamentals to technical challenges and navigate ambiguity to resolve problems to identify and define solutions.

Understand the end use of products, determine fitness-for-use of materials, and effectively advance the specification development of new and derivative products

Work hands-on with prototype generation, material evaluation, and experimental design and execution

Drive the development and refinement of new test methods and characterization techniques in partnership with other functions

Identify critical uncertainties, designing targeted experiments, enable new prototype builds, define and assessing fitness-for-use, and drive commercialization and scale-up

Understand and evaluate the performance of relevant competitive product alternatives

Bachelor's degree in a science or engineering field with a minimum of 3 years of experience in process, product, or new product/ materials development post-graduation

Solid knowledge of engineering fundamentals and ability to apply this knowledge to product development and challenging technical problems

Demonstrated ability to document, communicate, and present technical bodies of work

Demonstrated ability to effectively interact and influence cross-functional teams, as well as work independently all while adapting to a changing environment

Demonstrated ability to incorporate creativity in technical problem-solving and critical thinking

Demonstrated ability to work hands-on in all aspects of project work including developing prototypes and/or test methods

Understanding Materials Engineering and Programming is a plus