Design Engineer III

Design Engineer III#25-68231

Seattle, WA

All On-site

Job Description

Job Description:

As a Color, Material, and Finish Designer on the Industrial Design team, you bring extensive knowledge of industry trends, forecasting, color development and management, and have the technical knowledge to translate a creative vision into production-ready materials and processes. You have a record of shipping successful products in the Consumer Electronics, Wearable Technology, Fashion, or Eyewear industries and are comfortable working collaboratively with cross-discipline teams and manufacturing partners. Your insights, creative input, and development efforts will help guide the unique style and distinctive look of our brand.

General Summary:

Interface with industry to research and develop proprietary and innovative hardware styles, construction details, material combinations, new production techniques, etc.

Assist in the continual gathering and sharing of trends in consumer electronics, eyewear and fashion markets

Create fully resolved CMF strategy for presentation to team members, partners and manufactures.

Assist in the resolution of design, prototyping and manufacturing issues during the development phase; create fully resolved solutions to communicate and resolve manufacturing and prototyping challenges

Manage and maintain CMF product specifications for products in development from concept to production

Must-Have Skills

1. 5+ years experience working as a CMF Designer/Developer, Industrial Design Background

-Portfolio for design products they have worked on and LinkedIn required for all candidates

2. Working knowledge of plastic injection molding, metal fabrication techniques, resin development, coating technologies, plastics decoration processes, fabrics and textiles

3 Proficiency in communicating design vision, and concepts using 2D color renderings and 3D CAD and visualization experience is a plus

Nice-to-have Skills:

1. Experience working with electronic products , rugs, fabric or tool companies

2. Big Tech

Years of Experience: 5+years

Degrees/Certifications Required: Bachelors of Industrial Design from an accredited college or university, or relevant professional experience required

Are there any types of candidate profiles or skills that may not be the right fit for this team?

Suppliers need to understand if their candidates have solid experience in CMF, not just industrial design

Ask the candidate to look at their portfolio and ask what have they done to generate the CMF point of view, what is the decision making process.

Example - why choose the colour of this product - a qualified CMF designer should elaborate on how this impacts user experience, durable. Colour should be seen as a strategic choice rather than it looks good.

What are some difficulties that the candidate should be aware they may face in the role and need to be able to handle to be successful?

The role is very specific, this industry is very recent that's why most employees have an ID background as most colleges didn't have a major for CMF so it is rare to find this talent.

Not every Industrial designer is qualified to be in this role.

This role is an intersection who works closely with ID or material engineers.

How many rounds of interviews? 2-3 rounds of interviews

Types of Interviews

1st round with CWAM- skillsets, initial screening, background checking

2nd round- to see if they are a team player, also some technical questions on skill sets

3rd round is Potential- with an ID FTE to see if they are a right fit for the team, high level collaboration between ID and CMF

Interview Duration

30-45 minutes

What are some difficulties that the candidate should be aware they may face in the role and need to be able to handle to be successful?

The role is very specific, this industry is very recent that's why most employees have an ID background as most colleges didn't have a major for CMF so it is rare to find this talent. Not every Industrial designer is qualified to be in this role. This role is an intersection who works closely with ID or material engineers.

EEO:

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of - Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.