Product Design Architect, Platforms and Devices

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Industrial Design, Manufacturing) or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in consumer product design, including in the consumer electronics industry.
• Experience with 3D surfacing, utilizing NX/Alias.
• Experience designing and shipping consumer products.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume, providing a viewable link or access instructions.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in aligning design team efforts with company goals.
• Experience with materials, manufacturing, and all phases of the design process; ability to apply this expertise to provide innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Experience leading projects from concept to mass production as a team player with a willingness to learn.
• Proven record of shipping exceptional consumer products.
• Ability to grow in ambiguity, focus on customer experience, be detail-oriented, and do what it takes to get the job done.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.

About the job

The Product Design Architect team is part of the Hardware Design organization. Its mission is to support the industrial design team by developing ideas into products and designing consumer devices that delight and inspire users worldwide.

The team uses a deeply considered approach to craft beautiful, production-ready Class-A surfaces with a high bar for quality, aesthetics, and mathematical precision. In addition to delivering user-visible surfaces, the team partners cross-functionally to investigate mechanical and component architectures and develop innovative design concepts for appearance models, visualizations, and functional prototypes.

As a Product Design Architect, you will use 3D CAD software to capture and maintain industrial design vision from concept to production. You will understand a broad range of manufacturing processes and use cross-functional collaboration to meet engineering, UX, reliability, and cost requirements.

You will push 3D CAD to the highest level, focus on details, and bring designs into mass production. The Platforms and Devices team spans computing software platforms and first-party devices and services, researching, designing, and developing technologies that make interaction with computing faster and more seamless.

Responsibilities

• Leverage NX/Alias to capture and maintain industrial design vision from sketches, reference CAD, and discussions.
• Collaborate with Industrial Design, UX, Engineering, Manufacturing, and external teams to deliver production-level CAD models with Class-A surfaces in NX/Alias that meet requirements.
• Create high-quality 3D surfaces for design concepts, prototypes, engineering evaluations, and visualizations.
• Work independently and cross-functionally throughout the development and build process.
• Travel may be needed, including to overseas manufacturing facilities, to ensure manufacturing viability while maintaining the design vision.
• Present knowledge of new materials and processes, state-of-the-art innovation, and emerging technologies that inform product development.
• Identify future tools and processes to enhance capabilities and support department and company growth.