Lead Product Design Engineer

2 weeks ago

Redwood City, United States Ambient Full time
About the Company:

Founded by ex-Apple Product and Engineering leaders, Level is redefining the smart home with technology that is simple, intuitive, useful, and invisible. At Level, we take a unique approach to designing products - one that shifts focus from what we make to how we make it and who we make it for. It's an approach that results in elegant and unique solutions, raising the bar for the entire smart home ecosystem.

Now part of the Assa Abloy family, a global leader in access solutions, Level is positioned to accelerate innovation and expand our reach even further. This partnership strengthens our ability to deliver world-class smart home experiences while maintaining the vision and design excellence that have always set us apart.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Mechanical Engineer to spearhead projects within the Hardware Design team, focusing on developing future products. In this role, you will lead complex projects involving multiple engineers, directing their work and ensuring alignment with project goals. You will be instrumental in selecting the best concepts and technologies to fulfill product requirements, and overseeing the design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and maintenance of products while ensuring scalability, reliability, and simplicity. Additionally, you will drive critical decision-making processes, organize project activities, and foster clear, transparent communication across teams.

As a leader, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers, fostering their growth and development while maintaining a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to project execution. Strong analytical skills are essential for assessing complex problems, making informed decisions, and guiding your team through challenges. You should also be comfortable doing hands-on work, ensuring that you remain engaged with the practical aspects of design and development. Your focus on detail will ensure precision in all aspects of the project. This role reports to the Manager of Mechanical Engineering.

Responsibilities:
  • Oversee and participate in the creation of products from concept to mass production
  • Own high-level hardware system architecture and performance, ensuring designs meet rigorous strength and reliability standards
  • Lead the design, build, assembly, and testing of initial product prototypes, with a focus on durability and long-term performance
  • Drive decision-making processes in design reviews, ensuring that all choices are well-informed and align with project goals
  • Interact with electrical and firmware engineers on a daily basis to collaborate of technology/sensor selection, implement designs that fulfill product requirements and maintain cross-functional alignment
  • Create and maintain the mechanical design and BOM in 3D CAD (NX), and create engineering specifications that fully define components and subassemblies and capture design intent
  • Organize and maintain clear product records in PLM (Arena), ensuring all documentation is up-to-date and accessible
  • Foster clear and transparent communication across teams, ensuring all stakeholders are informed of project status, risks, and key decisions
Required Qualifications:
  • 7+ years of product design experience with 3+ years of leading ME/PD projects with a strong track record of ushering projects from early concept development through the NPI phases
  • Deep understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals, with extensive experience in mechanism design and designing for strength and reliability
  • Experience in designing consumer-oriented products using a broad range of processes and materials, with an emphasis on cosmetic plastic molding and metal parts (sheet metal, diecast, MIM, CNC, etc.)
  • Excellent math skills, including advanced geometry, calculus and physics
  • Familiarity with CAD (Siemens NX preferred) and other mechanical simulation software (ANSYS or similar)
  • Advanced problem-solving skills, with a strong balance of creative and critical thinking abilities
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability work effectively within and across teams
  • Exceptional communication skills, with a commitment to clear and transparent reporting and collaboration
  • Customer awareness, including an understanding of target user and use cases
  • Experience working with Asian manufacturing and supply chains including experience and willingness to travel internationally for key supplier meetings and NPI builds


More about Level Home:

When we look around our homes today, we see opportunity. We see "smart" products that lack utility and connected devices that push us further apart. We see consumers with high expectations, current standards set too low, and products that simply fail to deliver.

Level Home Inc. is re-inventing the standard. We're redefining "smart", to center around thoughtfulness, practicality, and the people who make the problem worth solving. We approach product design with a blank slate, zero assumptions, and an open mind because the way a problem is defined sets the stage for its solution. We couple deep expertise with unbridled curiosity, because to us "smart" means simple, intuitive, and useful.

We start with empathy, take new perspectives, and challenge existing standards. People are at the heart of what we do, and respecting their style, choices, and preferences is the first step to uncovering a thoughtful solution that truly improves their daily lives. After all, we're not just designing products for a house, we are designing them for the people who make it a home.

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Level Home Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don't reach out to Level employees or leaders about our roles -- we've got Recruiting covered. We don't accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding.

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