Senior Product Design Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity packages

Health, dental, vision insurance

Employee discounts

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is seeking a senior consumer product design engineer to drive mechanical design for cutting-edge wearables and other devices. You will lead design efforts with industrial designers, hardware engineers, and UX designers, while iterating rapidly.

The role emphasizes independent ownership, collaboration, and mentoring across teams, with opportunities to partner globally and shape product development from concept to prototype.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in consumer product design engineering.
• Experience collaborating with industrial designers, hardware engineers, and UX designers.
• Wearables experience preferred.
• Ability to drive tasks independently and mentor across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop mechanical aspects of wearable devices with attention to detail.
• Collaborate with manufacturing partners across regions (Asia, NA, Europe).
• Prototype, test, and iterate designs quickly using standard test equipment.

Skills

Product design

Project leadership

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Wearables experience

Tools

NX

SolidWorks

Job description

What you will do:

• Mechanical design and development of cutting edge wearable and other consumer devices, with a keen focus to detail, precision, and design

• Drive product development with our manufacturing partners in Asia, North America, and Europe

• Build a lot of prototypes, break them, and iterate quickly.

We would love to consider you for this role, if you have:

• Project Experience: 6+ years of experience as a consumer product design engineer who loves working on highly creative, fast-paced, and collaborative teams alongside Industrial Designers, Hardware Engineers, and UX Designers. Wearables experience preferred.

• 3D Modeling: Experience using 3D CAD (NX or Solidworks) to design densely packaged consumer electronic parts including: PCBs, flexes, antennas, enclosures, mechanisms, and batteries, etc.

• Prototyping: Ability to scrappily build prototypes quickly and effectively to evaluate design concepts using standard test equipment.

• Materials and Manufacturing Expertise: Knowledgeable about a wide variety of materials, and scalable manufacturing processes. A deep technical foundation in mechanics of materials.

• Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: You are comfortable with the unknown, the ambiguous, and strive to make engineering challenges a reality through creativity

• Driven, Technical Leadership: Able to drive tasks independently, act as a leader and mentor across multiple organizations, organize, elevate and communicate issues and needs clearly.

• Communication and Collaboration Skills: Effective communication and collaboration skills are important. Be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, work with other engineers and designers, and contribute to project planning and documentation.

Benefits

At the company, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at the company has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health and add to our benefits!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages

• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources

• An the company Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family

• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off

• Paid sick leave and parental leave

• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

the company takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Region 1 (San Francisco): $172,000 - $203,000

the company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at the company are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

the company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at the company are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.