Product Development Engineer

Luki Lab; California; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Luki Lab in Irvine, CA seeks a Product Development Engineer to bridge in-house design and Hong Kong engineering/manufacturing teams, ensuring design intent and on-time delivery across time zones.

The role focuses on manufacturability, cost control, and collaboration with designers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to bring toy concepts to market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or similar.
• DFM and mold flow experience and manufacturing awareness.
• Experience with high-volume production environment preferred.
• Excellent organizational and timeline management skills.
• Strong communication with Asia-based teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product designers to ensure concept feasibility for mechanical design, cost, and timing.
• Create and maintain product specifications including BOM, packaging, costing, and functional requirements.
• Provide guidelines to the Hong Kong team with exploded views, material specs, and sketches.
• Manage digital and physical modeling to ensure manufacturability, function and cost targets.
• Provide predictive costing for preliminary concepts and evaluate vendor quotations for cost reductions.
• Review production samples with teams to ensure manufacturability and aesthetics.

Skills

DFM

Mold flow

Tolerance management

Assembly line optimization

Excel

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Multitasking

Problem solving

Product development

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

3D design programs

Job description

Luki Lab is a fast-growing and award-winning toy company. We create and market a number of successful brands of toys and games sold at retail and online across the United States. As part of Strottman International, Luki Lab is focused on creativity, design and innovation. We have an immediate need in this growing division for a Product Development Engineer to work out of our Irvine (Orange County) office.

The Product Development Engineer serves as the primary technical bridge between in-house designers and the Hong Kong Engineering/Manufacturing Team to ensure design intent and schedule alignment across time zones.

Additional duties include:

• In Collaboration with Product Designers, develops products ensuring feasibility of concepts for functional and mechanical design, cost, manufacturability and timing
• Creates and maintains product specifications with bill of materials, packaging, costing and functional requirements for manufacturing
• Provides guidelines to the Hong Kong Team to include exploded views, material specs, and/or sketches of unique functions
• Manages and creates digital and physical modeling to ensure models meet manufacturability, functional, safety and costing expectations
• Provides predictive costing for preliminary product concepts
• Evaluates pricing quotations from Asia and domestic vendors and reconciles with product specifications. Reviews pricing with team, provides solutions to costing challenges, and pursues cost reduction ideas
• Reviews production samples with team and provides direction to assure manufacturability, function and aesthetics

Position Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or similar and at least 5 years of experience in product development, preferably in a toy company
• A passion for toys and fun! Doesn’t take self too seriously
• Proven expertise in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), plastic injection tooling (drafts, parting lines, mold flow), tolerance management, and assembly line optimization for high-volume production
• Strong track record of diagnosing and resolving mechanical fit, structural failures, and functional defects quickly from prototyping through T0/pilot runs
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage critical timelines
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively interface at all levels of the organization including Asia office
• The ability to multitask with multiple programs at various stages of development
• Ability to troubleshoot designs, improve manufacturability and cost, and collaborate effectively with designers, manufacturers, and cross-functional teams
• The ability to contribute to brainstorms considering multiple substrates with high and low cost targets
• Advanced Excel experience and Intermediate to advanced experience using SolidWorks and other 3D design programs

Salary Range Disclaimer

The salary range provided for this position represents the anticipated base salary range at the time of posting. Actual compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, education, geographic location, market conditions, and business needs.

While the full salary range reflects the potential compensation opportunity for the position, offers are expected to fall closer to the middle of the posted range rather than the top of the range. Compensation toward the upper end of the range is generally reserved for candidates who demonstrate exceptional qualifications, experience, skills, and/or sustained performance relative to the requirements of the position.

The salary range does not include potential bonuses, benefits, or other forms of compensation, unless otherwise specified.

The company reserves the right to modify the salary range or compensation structure based on business needs and applicable law.