Senior Automotive Product Designer (Solidworks)

Horsepower Automotive Group; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Employee discount

Referral program

Job summary

Horsepower Automotive Group is seeking a CAD Designer Lead at our Chandler, AZ facility. You will own the design process for premium aftermarket bumpers and accessories, turning bold ideas into manufacturable products for real trucks.

You’ll work with an in-house prototype team to transition designs from CAD to fabrication, ensuring high-quality visuals and durable structures. The role emphasizes hands-on CAD work, collaboration with engineers, and delivering parts ready for laser-cutting,

Qualifications

• SolidWorks experience.
• Sheet metal and welded assemblies design experience.
• Manufacturing drawing experience.
• 3+ years CAD design experience.

Responsibilities

• Create CAD models in SolidWorks daily from templates, parts, or own designs.
• Build complex 3D sheet metal and tubular assemblies ready for manufacturing.
• Process 3D scans and create scanned mesh models for new product development.
• Partner with prototype engineering to move products into automation and production.
• Implement part and assembly revisions based on instructions.

Skills

SolidWorks

Sheet metal

Welded assemblies

Manufacturing drawings

CAD design

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

WHO ARE WE?

Horsepower Automotive Group (HPAG), is a leader in the growing automotive aftermarket industry. When you join HPAG, you’ll have a unique opportunity to be a part of our exciting and rapidly growing, multi-brand organization. Our brands include Addictive Desert Designs, DV8 Offroad, Flatline Van Co, Rago Fabrication and C4. We support a collaborative environment and value open participation from individuals with different ideas, experiences, and perspectives.

Are you ready to be part of our future? Ever stare at a Raptor, Bronco, or Ram TRX and thought, “I could make that look even better”? So do we — every single day. Join our team and design the next generation of aftermarket accessories for Ford Raptors, Broncos, Ram TRXs, and other off-road vehicles. From 3D scan to finished product, you'll own the design process and see your work installed on real vehicles across the country.

Here at HPAG we build premium, made-in-America bumpers and accessories that flow with a vehicle’s bodylines, deliver aggressive styling, and keep every OEM function intact. From the Bronco Bomber to the Raptor Stealth Fighter, our products live on some of the toughest trucks on the trail — and it all starts in CAD.

We're looking for a CAD Designer Lead to turn bold ideas into manufacturable reality at our Chandler, Arizona facility. This role is focused on designing a quality product with great aesthetic look and style combined with enough structure to last for a lifetime once installed. If you enjoy the design side over the hard core engineering side this may be a great fit for you, come be part of that creative team!

Why You’ll Love This Role

• You’ll own the R&D design process end-to-end — creating, refining, and improving products built for the off-road community.
• Your designs won’t sit on a shelf. They get laser-cut, bent, welded, and bolted onto real trucks.
• You’ll work hands-on with a prototype engineering team that takes parts from screen to physical reality.
• Made in the USA, built for the elite — you’ll be part of a team obsessed with the details that matter.

What You’ll Do

• Create CAD models in SolidWorks daily — from templates, physical parts, or your own designs.
• Build complex 3D sheet metal and tubular assemblies ready for manufacturing.
• Process 3D scans and create scanned mesh models of vehicle data to drive new product development.
• Partner with the prototype engineering team to move new products into automation and production.
• Take open instructions on part and assembly revisions and run with them.

What You Bring – Position Requirements

• Must Have
  • SolidWorks experience
  • Sheet metal and welded assemblies design experience
  • Manufacturing drawing experience
  • 3+ years CAD design experience

Nice to Have

• Automotive aftermarket experience
• 3D scanning experience
• GD&T
• Fixture design
• Off-road enthusiast

Pay & Benefits

• Pay is Dependent on Experience
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Employee discount on the gear you’ll help create.
• Employee referral program.

Schedule & Location

• Full-time, 8-hour day shift, Monday through Friday.
• On-site at our Chandler, AZ facility.

A Few Things to Know

We are a drug-free workplace. All applicants must be able to pass a background check and drug test.

It is the policy of Horsepower Automotive Group, and its affiliated companies to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, citizenship status (if authorized to work in the U.S.), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.