Senior Innovation Engineer - Space Kitchen (Multiple Openings)

Nike; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accessibility accommodations

Job summary

Nike seeks two Senior Innovation Engineers (Mechanical) to shape the future of sport within the SPACE Explore Engineering team in Beaverton. You will act as a mechanical engineering SME, collaborating with engineers, designers, and sport scientists to drive design concepts from sketches to prototypes and scale.

The role emphasizes rapid prototyping, cross-functional collaboration, and innovative problem solving in ambiguous environments, with focus on commercialization-ready concepts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field; education/experience as acceptable.
• 6+ years in mechanical design engineering or equivalent.
• Prototyping mechanical systems is essential; electrical prototyping is a plus.
• Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, firmware, control systems and software topics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and scientists to shape innovative mechanical systems.
• Act as mechanical engineering SME across teams, providing design rationales and technical recommendations.
• Develop quick strike prototypes to move concepts forward efficiently.
• Create specifications and coordinate external vendors and services for prototypes and proofs-of-concept.

Skills

Mechanical design

Prototyping

CAD

SME engineering

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

Who You’ll Work With

This role will collaborate with engineers and scientists to help shape the engineering innovation portfolio. This individual will be the subject matter or domain expert in mechanical engineering for the Explore Engineering team. You will be partnering directly with many teams across innovation and operate from within Nike’s Space Kitchen.

Who We Are Looking For

We’re looking for two Senior Innovation Engineers (specializing in mechanical engineering) to help build the future of sport. These roles dream the future of sport and makes it a reality by demonstrating what is possible. They require an individual who has shown skills in overcoming significant engineering challenges or notable examples of meaningful innovation in their career to date. The Just Do It nature of the job requires a highly creative and competent engineer; someone who is excited by trying new things and energized from learning through iteration. If you are a self-starter, if you are comfortable in and able to create opportunity from highly ambiguous environments, and if you are willing to take high but informed risk, this job is for you.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training.
• Minimum 6 years of work experience in mechanical design engineering.
• Significant experience prototyping and iterating mechanical systems required. Experience prototyping electrical systems a plus.
• Must possess a high-level understanding of engineering technical subject areas, including mechanical, electrical, firmware, control systems, and software engineering. Experience in these areas a plus.
• Proficiency in CAD required (SolidWorks a plus).
• Excellent creativity, communication, presentation, troubleshooting, problem solving, time-management, and analytical skills are required.
• Work with engineers, designers, innovators, and sport scientists to realize design of systems.
• Function as a mechanical engineering SME and resource across teams; using concept sketches, engineering design/ideas, and other communication methods to assure clear understanding of technological capabilities and limitations, and providing rationale and recommendations for technical and product decisions.
• Move concepts quickly and efficiently, especially by creating quick strike prototypes.
• Remain connected with pioneering innovations across the materials, manufacturing, and mechanical design industry; sharing technology innovations with team members and partners across the company.
• Create specifications and quotation documentation in order to lead external professional services firms (domestic and international) and component vendors to create prototypes and generate proof-of-concepts, with an eye towards commercialization at scale.
• Efficiently run multiple projects simultaneously.

What You’ll Work On

As a Senior Innovation Engineer on the SPACE Explore Engineering team, you will collaborate with a select group of Nike’s most passionate engineers, to explore the limits of what is possible when engineering solutions are applied to improving athletic performance. This is an exploration innovation team, working at the furthest edge of the innovation spectrum; striving to make big leaps in what is actually possible.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.