Product Development Engineer

Midea America Corp., is one of the world’s largest home appliance brands, offering the most comprehensive selection of products in the world to fully serve the needs of day-to-day living at home, at work, or anywhere else you go. In North America we strive to aim high, put the customer first, transform and innovate the marketplace, utilizing our commitment, dedication, inclusion, and partnership with our teams.

Midea America is a subsidiary of the Midea Group, a global company with over 150,000 employees and operations in more than 195 countries. As a publicly listed company, we are ranked #245 as a Fortune Global 500 company and offer one of the most comprehensive product portfolios in the industry.

The Product Development Engineer brings electrical, electronics, and embedded software expertise to a mechanically focused product development team. The role is responsible for defining and validating new laundry product specifications for the North American market, and for supporting the China-based R&D team through the full product development lifecycle. This role starts upstream of design — establishing functional and performance requirements through competitor benchmarking, product performance testing, and a strong understanding of North American consumer habits, attitudes, competitive landscape, and applicable standards and regulations — and stays engaged through prototype verification, root-cause problem solving, and field test support.

As the team's go-to resource for electrical and controls topics, this engineer works side by side with mechanical engineers, helping the team understand how electronics and software affect product performance, while bringing a systems-engineering mindset and a practical understanding of the mechanical side of the product.

This position is full-time and fully on-site. Given the peaks-and-valleys nature of NPI work (New Product Introduction), this engineer will also have periodic bandwidth to contribute to future product improvement concepts and new capabilities.

• Define new product specifications for the North American market through competitor benchmarking, product performance testing, and evaluation — covering functional and performance requirements, including electrical, controls, and software behavior alongside physical and mechanical aspects.
• Translate North American consumer habits, attitudes, and the competitive landscape into concrete, testable engineering requirements.
• Maintain working knowledge of North American standards and regulations relevant to laundry appliances, including electrical safety requirements, and ensure specifications and engineering solutions reflect those requirements.
• Document and clearly communicate engineering requirements to R&D engineering teams in China, ensuring requirements are correctly understood and translated into design.
• Serve as the team's electrical and controls resource throughout all project phases, reviewing electrical designs and control behavior with R&D and explaining their impact to mechanical engineering colleagues.
• Verify that functional prototypes adhere to proposed specifications through structured testing and evaluation as they become available.
• Identify problems and perform root cause analysis on design or performance issues, working with mechanical teammates to determine whether a problem comes from the mechanical, electrical, or software side; propose corrective solutions and track validation and implementation through resolution.
• Set up automated lab test benches to control and monitor product inputs and outputs, incorporating sensors, data-log shields, and microcontroller platforms such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
• Write control and data-acquisition code (C/C++ or…