Senior Product Design Engineer - Floorcare

Senior Product Design Engineer - Floorcare

About Us

Shark Ninjais a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeople’s lives in homes around the world.
Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja
, the company has a proven track recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed

Shark

Ninjato enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than4,100associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

At Shark Ninja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

Our mission — to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world — lets our employees be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love. As we continue to grow, we're excited to add a Senior Product Design Engineer to our global team.

You’ll help build a new generation of innovative products across our Shark Floorcare brand, working from our Needham, MA headquarters. This is front-end product creation: you’ll bring technical substance and inspiration to our creative efforts, focusing on technology and feasibility as we build the product roadmap, so what reaches the market is credible as well as exciting.

• Own the Floorcare roadmap's front-end technology and feasibility phase for our next generation of vacuums and floorcare products — complete system innovations that sit between the physical (mechanical) and system (sensors, software, batteries, connectivity, motors, airflow) elements of a cleaning system.
• Work the front-end product and engineering development phase
  , using ideation and innovation techniques to unlock and drive the roadmap alongside engineering and cross-functional PD, , Brand, and Test Kitchen teams in the US, UK, and China.
• Fail fast — drive ideas to a conclusion early via functional rigs, before handing part or complete product solution packages to the back-end implementation AD team.
• Tinker hands-on across short- and long-term projects, in the form of proof-of-concept rigs.
• Communicate ideas quickly and effectively through a mix of sketching, CAD layouts, 3D models, and working prototypes to evaluate potential solutions.
• Carry out design and engineering studies
  , independently and in teams, to solve technical or consumer issues — keeping user experience front and center at every stage, including cleaning performance, maneuverability, and ease of use.
• Collaborate with our global AD and CI teams so front-end sensibilities — the consumer-focused experience — drive our direction and survive all the way through development to a 5-star product.
• Coach and support your teammates
  , especially junior colleagues, and encourage their efforts.
• Balance and prioritize multiple workflows across projects alongside additional responsibilities, on fast-paced schedules and deadlines.

• 5–8+ years of proven experience in Mechanical Engineering.
• Electromechanical products in a product development environment — ideally including motorized floor-cleaning systems (vacuums, mops, or similar high-duty-cycle mechanical assemblies).
• Designing for plastic parts, including…