Product Design Engineer

Take the ID and produce a manufacturable structure

• Take the ID concept and deliver a production-ready stack-up, 3D models, 2D drawings with tolerances, and the BOM.
• Solve manufacturability — wall thickness, draft, parting lines, snap fits, bosses, sealing, assembly — without giving up the intent of the design.
• Run the tolerance stack-up, and control cosmetic gaps, flush and assembly consistency.

Work with the ODM and the ID designer

• With the ODM’s ME: align on the PCBA outline, connector and FPC positions, component height limits, mounting, grounding and antenna keep-out.
• With our ID designer: feed structural improvements back and balance appearance, cost and reliability.
• The automotive concerns of a whole device: a passive thermal path and TIM for a hot cabin running continuously; windshield mount, ball head and adhesive base, including drop; and the structure and feel of the physical privacy switch — a slider or toggle with an LED.

Tooling, materials, process

• Lead tooling review, follow the tools through the shop, and run T0–T3 validation and yield work.
• Select and validate materials: plastics (PC / ABS / nylon), aluminium and magnesium alloys, LSR, LCP.
• Land the processes: injection moulding, CNC, die casting and extrusion, sheet metal, and finishing — anodising, blasting, painting.

CMF, packaging, and owning production

• Define the CMF with ID and see it through: driving supplier samples, colour matching, and sign-off on limit samples.
• Retail packaging: structure, cushioning, drop performance, the unboxing, and print CMF — working directly with the packaging supplier.
• Pilot and mass production: close out interference, assembly tolerance, drop and environmental failures; DFM / DFA, BOM cost reduction, and structural ECR / ECO.

• Bachelor’s degree or above in mechanical design, materials forming, or tooling.
• 5+ years in consumer electronics mechanical design, with at least one complete case of taking an appearance concept from zero to a product on a shelf. This one is not negotiable.
• Strong in one of Creo/ProE, SolidWorks or UG/NX, and fluent in AutoCAD. ANSYS / ABAQUS is a plus.
• Familiar with the material and process behaviour of plastics, aluminium and magnesium alloys, LSR and LCP.
• Tooling structure — sliders, lifters, hot runners — and able to do DFM on your own.
• Aluminium housings by extrusion, CNC or die casting, with finishing.
• CMF taken to production, including colour matching and limit samples, and packaging taken to production.
• Aware of what antenna keep-out and EMC / ESD ask of the structure and its grounding.
• Able to take an appearance concept and hold it through realisation. Rigorous, able to find the root cause of a structural failure alone, level-headed under pressure, good across teams, and able to read technical English.

• Automotive hardware: dashcams, ADAS, in-car terminals, OBD.
• Fanless passive thermal design.
• A CMF programme you led from concept through to production.
• Structure and packaging taken to production for North America or another export market.
• Fluent written English, enough to work directly with overseas suppliers and labs.

• Compensation negotiable, set against your experience, paid on a 13-month basis, with an employment contract and the statutory five insurances and housing fund.
• Three-month probation, confirmed on review.
• An early core role; long-term incentives discussed directly.
• Ability and production experience come first — neither your degree nor a big-company background is a threshold requirement.